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Chicago-born cardinal, who was elected on Thursday as a new Pope, came out of the people of the new Orleans Colored Creole.
Pope, both in different historical records live in an area in the seventh chamber of the city, which are described as black or mulatto as black or mulatto, traditionally in an area with Catholic and African and European roots.
Grandma and grandparents, Joseph Martinez and Louise Bakue, as a result, he moved to Chicago in the early nineteenth century and had a daughter: Mildinez, Pope’s mother Mildinez.
The discovery means that the Pope will be known, only the foundation of the United States is not just the ground. It also comes from a family that reflects many ropes that make up a complex and rich piece of American story.
On Thursday, New Orleans opened on Thursday by Jarie C. Honya, and the Pope’s older brother John Prevost, was approved by John Prevrops living around Chicago.
“This discovery is an extra reminder for what we are related to what we are American,” Mr. Honya said in a text message on Thursday. “I hope that this will emphasize the long history of the robber in this country, which includes both freedom and a robbery and the Holy Father’s family.”
He said the new Pope’s Creole told the public and his brother did not recognize the family as black. The announcement of the election in Rome was directed to his early life in Chicago and decade.
Mr. Honya, who works in the French New Orleans collection in the French quarter, began to investigate the background of the Pope in the French quarter, on the opposite south.
The evidence of evidence that closed the new Orleans, in 1887 in Chicagoda Martinez family, Mildred Martinez, who was born in 1912 in Chicago, includes an electronic birth record.
Birth record Yusif Martinez and Louis Baquiex name Mildred’s list of parents. The place where the father was born is given as the Dominican Republic; Mother, New Orleans.
Mr. Honya was listed as “black” as “black” as “black” as “black” as “black” as “Hayti”, and “Black Maker” also celebrated its occupation as “black,”. Mr. Martinez’s details appear on a sixth page of the census shared with Mr. Honya’s periods.
“Both Yusuf Norval Martinez and Louise Bakue did not doubt,” Mr. Honya said.
Joseph Martinez’s exact birthplace remains a little secret – Mr. Honya also found 1870 census, said that the Pope’s mother’s grandfather was born Louisiana. But he said that people’s responses to the records of officials are not uncommon.
Joseph Martinez and Louise Baquié married New Orleans in the lady of Holy. Unless the church building was destroyed in 1915, the church building was on Annette Street, a historic center of Afro-Creole culture in the seventh part of the city.
Creoles, known as “Creole Cheol”, have a history of almost an older to Louisiana. Although the word creole can appeal to the world of European landings in America, it usually describes the people of the mixed racing.
Many Louisiana creoles were known as “Gens de Couleur Books” or free colored people in the 18th-19th centuries. Many were a well-educated, French-speaking and Roman Catholic.
In the decades, in business, building business and art, especially music, especially the development of music, jazz, especially the music. They continue to be an important rope in the famous heterogeneous culture of the city.
The revelation of the new Pope’s heritage is a great moment for the history of the history of Louisiana Creoles, Lolita Villavasso Cherrie, founder with Mr. Honya Creole Genealoji and Historical Association.
“I hate to say that, but we feel, we have many of us, we hid our history from us,” he said. Villavasso Cherrie, 79, retired teacher. In part, he said many Kreol “he could not pass” as white for years.
It was not only with the arrival of the Internet, he said that many people began to investigate their family history and be aware of Creole’s roots. He noted that a large number of Louisiana Creole Chicago area In the 20th century.
Papan’s brother John Promost said that father grandparents and his grandfather were from France and the father was born in the United States. He said his brothers did not discuss Creole’s roots.
“It was never a problem,” said John.
As for the Pope’s race identity, what does this mean, touches some thornest questions in the US society, but also reflect the rich diversity of American experience.
“We all got out of each other (or less than a few degrees),” said Mr. Honya, Sajariki.
Julie Bosman Information provided by Chicago. Susan C. Beachy contributed research.
