Posted on 08/07/2019 11:58:52 AM PDT by Perseverando
"There are but 155 years left ... at which time ... the world will come to an end," wrote Christopher Columbus in his book Libro de Las Profecias, composed in 1502 between his 3rd and 4th voyages.
Columbus continued:
"... The sign which convinces me that our Lord is hastening the end of the world is the preaching of the Gospel recently in so many lands."
Though his predictions were off, Columbus' writings revealed his motivation for setting sail on his first voyage AUGUST 3, 1492, with the Nina, Pinta and the Santa Maria.
He sought to find a sea route to India and China as the Islamic Ottoman Turks had closed off the land routes 40 years earlier.
The background of the Islamic state occupying large areas of Europe began when Muslim crusaders, called "Moors," invaded Spain in 711 AD.
The Muslim commander was named Ṭāriq ibn Ziyad. He landed, with his 80,000-man Umayyad army, at a place where there was a large mount, for which the Arabic word is "jabal."
The place took his name "Jabal Ṭāriq," or as it was later pronounced "Gibraltar."
Moorish cavalry, wielding curved scimitar swords, "went through all places like a desolating storm."
The Mozarabic Chronicle, 754 AD, recorded that thousands of churches were burned and: "God alone knows the number of the slain."
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In 846 AD, just 46 years after Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome's old St. Peter's Basilica, 11,000 Muslims on 73 ships invaded Rome and sacked the Basilica.
They looted the historic basilica and desecrated the grave of St. Peter.
Invaders then trashed the remains of St. Paul, which were in the historic church, San Paolo fuori le Mura (St Paul's outside the Walls.)
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Volumbus knew about the vikings in america ge jnew america was there was not going to india or china
The loooooong coast of Africa which the Portuguese were already working their way around
To answer the headline; Africa.
Thanks fieldmarshaldj. He went west because so many had gone west over the ages and the landmasses were rumored. Columbus went to Iceland to research this, and Icelanders had passed down the information. Greenland had been abandoned less than two centuries earlier.
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