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Roots of Liberty Live On | San Antonio News
The legendary Maryland Liberty Tree, felled in 1999 after Hurricane Floyd, didn’t vanish without a trace—its roots were saved and reborn as the “Roots of Liberty” on St. John’s campus. These trees once served as revolutionary town squares, where colonists gathered to protest British rule and even staged a Maryland “tea party” by burning a tea-laden ship. Today, fragments of those sacred roots live on in powerful symbols: crosses gifted to Pope Francis and King Charles III, and even a gavel in Maryland’s Old Senate Chamber. It’s a living legacy—proving that history’s spirit, and its very…
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