Ah, no. Italians came to America so that those of us who are Scandnavian and Celt could marry them and produce beautiful, smart children. As my Irish grandmother said when I announced my engagement to my half Italian hubby, “It’s about time this family had some brown eyes!”
Everybody knows Columbus was an explorer, navigator, and fearless adventurer of the highest order.
Many people don’t know he was primarily an evangelist - he did what he did in the Holy Name of Jesus - a fact that has been sadly overlooked through the centuries that followed...