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Christopher Columbus and the Franciscans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Francis Borgia Steck
Francis Borgia Steck*
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Washington, D. C.
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No one who is entitled to speak with authority has ever questioned the well-known story that relates how in his hour of affliction, on landing at Palos, Christopher Columbus was befriended by the Franciscans of the friary of Santa María de la Rábida; how a Franciscan encouraged him to present his maritime project at the Spanish court; how, when all hope of royal support vanished, the Franciscan guardian of La Rábida intervened and thus made possible the voyage that resulted in the discovery of America. While this much of the story has always been accepted as properly established, students of American history have long been in disagreement and partly also in ignorance concerning certain details that bear importantly on the friendship that existed between the Genoese navigator and the sons of Saint Francis.

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The Americas , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , January 1947 , pp. 319 - 341
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1947 

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