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Excerpt from The Unchangeable Church, Her Heroes, Her Martyrs, Her Trials, and Her Triumphs, Vol. 2 of 2
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 congrega tion 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 Bal timore, 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 - Sen timent of the American people regarding their Catholic fellow-countrymen undergoes a decided change - Address of the American Catholic 'clergy and laity to President Wash ington - The illustrious man's reply - The American Hierarchy - Catholic institutions in.
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