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Governor O'Malley posted this today, on FB:
'Waiting for Pope at the National Basilica/Catholic U. The Cross on the very front of the pulpit here was the very same Cross carried off of the Ark and the Dove by Jesuit hands when Maryland was founded in 1634 as the first Catholic colony in what is now the United States.'