Pilgrims Departing from England

St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Religious News Service Photo

1947-11-23

art reproduction

Thanksgiving Day
Church

England

1940-1949

"Departure from Delftshaven, England, July, 1620. The Pilgrims were mostly separatists from the Mother Church of England and they embarked for the new world primarily to escape religious persecution. They had established independent churches that have since banded into the Congregational Christian Church. Abused in England, some fled to Holland; finally they succeeded in raising enough funds from speculators to strike out for a new home in the gigantic, uncharted wilderness that lay beyond the sea."

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