[Magdalen] The most bizarre thing I've seen yet

[Jay Weigel]

I am aware that a number of unreconstructed Confederates refugeed to Mexico
in the years following the Civil War. Among them was at least one son of
General Pickett, who lived in La Paz in Baja California when my dad was
doing research down there in the late 1940s. He was then an old man. He'd
married a Mexican woman, and together they had 10 children. As my dad, who
met most of the children, recounted it, they were a most unusual family,
because rather than looking like blends of both parents, all the children
looked either entirely Mexican or entirely Anglo. And the name down there
was pronounced "Pickett-eh".

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 7/4/2015 2:47:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
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> proved  to be an equally large Confederate flag. What the heck? ~SMH
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> For some years, there was a van always parked smack in front of
> the Latin Tridentine parish church with a large variety of attached
> conservative political slogans especially on the back doors.
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> The largest of these was emblazoned, "DIE LIBERAL SCUM",
> and this assemblage was all tied together with a large Confederate
> flag.
>
> Since I was in the choir and was on the late side exiting the church,
> I wondered whose van this might be.
>
> Then I discovered it belonged to the son of a couple singing in the  choir.
> I asked them about it, and was surprised at the gist of their  explanation:
> "The Church has never condemned slavery".  Shortly after this
> conversation,
> they left the Tridentine Rite for one of the Byzantine parishes over the
> issue
> of mixing the consecrated Hosts from the Saturday Ordinary Form Mass
> with those of the Tridentine.  They did not recognize Hosts from  the
> New Rite.
>
> And Anglicans think they have problems!
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>
> David Strang.
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