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Nostra Signora di Fatima abbraccia Bandiera d'Italia - Dipinto di Dino Carbetta

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“Our Lady of Fatima embraces the Flag of Italy - Painting by Dino Carbetta”…

Christopher Columbus made four voyages to the New World, and each brought its discoveries and adventures. Most accounts of Columbus’s voyages mistake his motives by focusing narrowly on economic or political factors. His primary motive was to find enough gold to finance a crusade to retake Jerusalem from the Muslims, as evidenced by a letter he wrote in 1492 to King Fernando and Queen Isabel, encouraging them to “spend all the profits of this my enterprise on the conquest of Jerusalem.” He believed he was fulfilling conditions for the Second Coming of Christ. Near the end of his life, he even compiled a book about the connection between the liberation of Jerusalem and the Second Coming. Columbus considered himself a “Christ-bearer” like his namesake, St. Christopher. When he first arrived on Hispaniola, his first words to the natives were, “The monarchs of Castile have sent us not to subjugate you but, to teach you the true religion. Columbus asked the pontiff to send missionaries to the indigenous peoples of the New World so they could accept Christ. And in his will, he proved his belief in the importance of evangelization by establishing a fund to finance missionary efforts to the lands he discovered. Columbus did not sail to the New World to enslave native peoples he might encounter. In further proof that he did not plan to rely on slave labor, he asked the crown to send him Spanish miners to mine for gold. Indeed, the Spanish monarchs in their instructions to Spanish settlers mandated that the Indians be treated “very well and lovingly” and demanded that no harm should come to them. Sadly, this admonition was not always practiced. Columbus was a complex man and his actions in the New World reflected the complexities of his experiences and the time in which he lived. He was neither the saint nor the barbarian portrayed by different groups with their agendas in the modern world.

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“Our Lady of Fatima embraces the Flag of Italy - Painting by Dino Carbetta”…<br /> <br /> Christopher Columbus made four voyages to the New World, and each brought its discoveries and adventures. Most accounts of Columbus’s voyages mistake his motives by focusing narrowly on economic or political factors. His primary motive was to find enough gold to finance a crusade to retake Jerusalem from the Muslims, as evidenced by a letter he wrote in 1492 to King Fernando and Queen Isabel, encouraging them to “spend all the profits of this my enterprise on the conquest of Jerusalem.” He believed he was fulfilling conditions for the Second Coming of Christ. Near the end of his life, he even compiled a book about the connection between the liberation of Jerusalem and the Second Coming. Columbus considered himself a “Christ-bearer” like his namesake, St. Christopher. When he first arrived on Hispaniola, his first words to the natives were, “The monarchs of Castile have sent us not to subjugate you but, to teach you the true religion. Columbus asked the pontiff to send missionaries to the indigenous peoples of the New World so they could accept Christ. And in his will, he proved his belief in the importance of evangelization by establishing a fund to finance missionary efforts to the lands he discovered. Columbus did not sail to the New World to enslave native peoples he might encounter. In further proof that he did not plan to rely on slave labor, he asked the crown to send him Spanish miners to mine for gold. Indeed, the Spanish monarchs in their instructions to Spanish settlers mandated that the Indians be treated “very well and lovingly” and demanded that no harm should come to them. Sadly, this admonition was not always practiced. Columbus was a complex man and his actions in the New World reflected the complexities of his experiences and the time in which he lived. He was neither the saint nor the barbarian portrayed by different groups with their agendas in the modern world.