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International Cuisine Conference on Traditional Asian Diet Panaji, Goa, September 2-5, 2007 - http://www.indologygoa.in Online Media Partner: http://www.goanet.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Order of the Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organisation, lobbying by this organisation led to the inclusion of the phrase 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance of the USA. It is named after Christopher Columbus, whose 'discovery' of America paved way for the subsequent genocide of Native Americans. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Columbus St. Columba was also apparently a mass murder, but trivial matters like these are not important to the cannonisation process of the Church if mass murder is followed by mass conversions. [quote]Diarmuid was defeated at Cuildreimhne, Co. Sligo and Columba was blamed for the hundreds of dead. When a synod called on him to make amends by converting an equal number of pagans, he opted to work among the Picts of Scotland.[end of quote] http://www.irelandseye.com/irish/people/saints/columba.shtm Sunith Velho >As to your last sentence, I cannot think what you're >saying. Perhaps you mean Knights of St Columba. Please >see >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Saint_Columba >and further, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Columba. >I see no references of this monk being a mass >murderer. >Gabriel de Figueiredo