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   From: mrwilson.6975@yahoo.de   
      
   And Columbus's chosen goal and destination were none other than the   
   spreading of God's Kingdom upon this Earth.  Columbus was a   
   providential agent, the divinely-elected Messenger of a New Heaven,   
   chosen to bear the light of the gospel to unevangelised recesses of   
   the earth – the parts which other explorers had neither the courage   
   nor the foresight to reach.  His divine plan for an Atlantic crossing   
   he testified, "God revealed to me by His manifest hand". All native   
   people of the Americas were to praise God for the bountiful blessings   
   bestowed upon them as a result of the Voyage of Columbus. Indeed, his   
   real name Christo Ferens means "Messenger of Christ" and there were   
   even biblical prophecies of his discoveries. (See "Libro de las   
   profecias".) Among his contemporaries, he was regarded as a legend,   
   and to the leading gurus of the courts of Europe, he was 'like a new   
   apostle'. Even the humanist faction from his native Italy, who later   
   taught the Renaissance men of Castile, labeled him 'the sort of whom   
   the ancients made gods'. Indeed, wherever he explored, the natives all   
   revered him as a god, but Columbus was never one to let something like   
   that go to his head. Always and unfailingly the humble servant of Our   
   Lord Jesus Christ, he unselfishly devoted his entire life to bringing   
   the blessings of Christianity to the distant reaches of mankind.   
      
   So on this Columbus Day, the 520th anniversary of the discovery that   
   was to save the New World and its Indian inhabitants, let us all take   
   some time away from our daily hustle and bustle to reflect on the   
   noble voyage of those three westward sailing vessels and their wise   
   and intrepid Admiral and let us all kneel down and thank God for   
   having given the world Christopher Columbus.   
      
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