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I thought it was supposed to be St Brendan who discovered America? 
Jharek has a point though. It depends on how one looks at it.Christopher Columbus certainly ‘discovered’ the Americas which were successfully settled by the Spanish. That’s just basic history!
I am pretty sure it was a member of my family.I thought it was supposed to be St Brendan who discovered America?![]()
Hear! Hear!Christopher Columbus certainly ‘discovered’ the Americas which were successfully settled by the Spanish. That’s just basic history!
Some of that stuff does seem silly & there’s probably no way he was in a witness protection program or a spy, but I still think the man gets too much credit.It’s incredible that anyone could even believe the total nonsense that you’ve posted.
He was born Crisoforo Colombo on October 5, 1436 in the Domican church of San Stefano in Genoa. How do we know? HIS BAPTISM IS RECORDED THERE!! This is just normal information, and you could have saved yourself a lot of time by just contacting the Congress of Italian American Organizations (CIAO). When he worked in Spain for the King and Queen, his name was Cristobal Colon in Spanish (translated from the Italian) and when he lived in Portugal he went under the Portuguese name of Cristovao Colombo.
Columbus’s father was Domenico Colombo, a wool weaver. His mother was Suzanna Fontanarossa, the daughter of a wool weaver. The eldest of five children, Christopher had three brothers—Bartholomew, Giovanni Pellegrino, and Giacomo—and one sister, Bianchinetta. The entire family moved to the nearby port city of Savona, west of Genoa, in 1470. He also attended the University at Pavia. Why and how? BECAUSE HE BELONGED TO A GUILD!
I find any other ‘alternative’ to the authentic life of Columbus to be reprehensible and rightly belongs to urban legend or to be ignored. Mostly, the alternatives are an indirect attack of bigotry against Italians and I think people who are like that need to be rejected because you can’t discuss things rationally with them. They are like the people who continue to believe that our government was in back of the 9/11 events.
Why don’t you read the biography of the one who was closest to him - his son? His son traveled several times with him across the Atlantic to the New World. Though they did not have the best or relationships, I consider the son’s testimony as closest to the truth.
Joe that is one of the best and funniest posts I have ever read! Here here!I recall reading someplace the story of a Native American chief who flew to Rome and discovered Italy, and claimed it for his tribe.![]()