The Unchangeable Church, Her Heroes, Her Martyrs, Her Trials, and Her Triumphs, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Unchangeable Church, Her Heroes, Her Martyrs, Her Trials, and Her Triumphs, Vol. 2 of 2 A continuous record of heroic personages and beneficent achievements - Christopher Columbus, the great Catholic navigator - The mystery of the western seas - Repeated failures to secure support - Columbus at the monastery of La Rabida - Father Juan Perez de Marchena secures for Columbus the aid of Queen Isabella - The good priest also interests the brothers Pinzon in the cause - Beginning of the greatest voyage in the history of the world - Land sighted - The discoverers, kneeling upon the shore, give thanks to God - Columbus showered with honors on his return to Spain-The great navigator makes three subsequent voyages - His death - The glory of the discovery of America belongs to Columbus and to the Catholic Church - First prayers to Almighty God in the New World offered up by Catholic priests - England while still Catholic enters the field of American discovery - John and Sebastian Cabot - Celebration of Holy Mass for the earliest congregation assembled in America - The Catholic explorers Cartier and Champlain - Other Catholic discoverers - Beginning of the Hierarchy of the United States - America an early asylum for persecuted English Catholics - Sir George Calvert, afterward Lord Baltimore, a Catholic convert - His son, Cecilius, second Lord Baltimore - Maryland - Catholic missionaries - Their incessant labor and many hardships - Conversion of Protestants - Puritans received with hospitality - They prove ungrateful - Testimony of American historians concerning civil and religious liberty in Maryland - Protestant intolerance - Revolt of the American colonies against England - Catholics in the Revolution - Sentiment of the American people regarding their Catholic fellow-countrymen undergoes a decided change - Address of the American Catholic clergy and laity to President Washington - The illustrious man´s reply - The American Hierarchy - Catholic institutions in the United States. The history of the Catholic Church in America, from the time of the discovery of the New World by the great Catholic navigator, Christopher Columbus, is a continuous record of heroic personages and beneficent achievements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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