Vivat Jesus!
Posted on 10/08/2023 7:38:20 PM PDT by ebb tide
TToday, we celebrate the great legacy of Christopher Columbus. With a deep and abiding faith in God and against seemingly insurmountable odds, Columbus led a voyage of three ships across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered America. The result of his brave expedition led to subsequent expeditions to America and, ultimately, the formation of the United States.
Slavery, war, and cannibalism were rampant in America before Columbus or the Spanish landed in the New World.
Leftist activists seek to destroy Columbus’s legacy and, by extension, damage America’s moral legitimacy. Decrying racism and genocide, the followers of woke leftism demand Columbus’s name be removed from history and replaced with the approved holiday of the liberal regime. Columbus represents the goodness of Christianity and America; therefore, he is the first enemy of the woke left revisionists. (READ MORE: The Historical Falsification of Columbus’ ‘Crimes’)
Columbus is not a villain — he is the hero of America. His faith, determination, and courage transformed America into the nation we have today. To that, we must be thankful.
The Faith of Columbus
Columbus was more than just a navigator; he was a man of deep faith. Columbus sailed not just to find a trade route to China, but to evangelize.
His first landing in the Americas was a providential event. When faced with a disgruntled crew, Columbus promised they would return to Spain if they did not reach land by the Feast of Our Lady of the Pillar. On October 12, 1492, a voice cried, “Tierra! (land)” as the shore of the new world became visible. As written by Washington Irving in A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus; as Columbus landed, he knelt in prayer, saying: ...
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Amen 🙏🏻!!!!
Yes, sadly. Or for that matter, Leif Erickson Day, which is on October 9th as well.
Hinga Dinga Durgen!
Columbus was thrown in jail by Ferdinand for his ruthless treatment of the natives which included slavery and torture.
This is why he has to be cancelled.
1. Columbus was trying to find a route to China to circumvent the silk road
2. Slavery was endemic globally, including in the America’s at the time.
So spare me your moral indignation about the horror of it, since it existed in the America’s before Chris ever showed up...
Columbus sailed on the Pinta, Nina, and Santa Maria, which translates roughly “A portrait of a little girl, Holy Mary”.
Only about 40 years later Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared, converting millions of native Americans to Catholicism. And what did she leave mankind on a piece of cloth lighted by a mysterious colored light that has survived for over 500 years?
A nice portrait of a little girl Holy Mary.
Thanks for giving FR the leftist pond scum’s view of Columbus.
Columbus day exists only as a sop to Catholic voters. That’s it. He never set foot on any land that would become the US. In fact, he never set foot in North America. The country he represented and the religion he practiced were not part of the colonization of the land that became the United States. Was he some kind of evil villain? No. Is he any kind of material contributor to the country we have? No.
Vivat Jesus!
If Columbus had never sailed in 1492, the existence of the New World would not have remained unknown to Europeans much longer--in 1500 a Portuguese ship trying to get to India got off course and discovered Brazil.
Happy Día de la Raza to our Mexican amigos!!!!
Anti-Islam. The muslims closed the Silk Road. Columbus was searching for an alternate trade route. (Source: Bill Federer, American Minute)
Your screen name suits you well. You already seem to have drunk the “Kool-Aid” of Lies.
Columbus was thrown in jail by Ferdinand for his ruthless treatment of the natives which included slavery and torture.Ah, yes, the great Francisco de Bobadilla, who persecuted Columbus for having hanged Spanish who had tortured natives, and who himself enslaved Indians to work in the gold mines, and bought off leaders for his own enrichment. He just couldn't stand that an Italian was far more worthy than he, a Spaniard...
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