The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . LA RABIDA CONVENT. 475. ,A IN ARMOR. records of the parish are the names of the sailors who accompanied him and received communion the morninof of their departure. There is also the miracle-workine imao^e of the virgin of La Rabida to which they offered differ as to the time when Columbus first appeared at Palos and the Monastery of La Rabida. Some assert that he came there direct from Portugal in 1484. At this time he was on his way to Moguer, where he intended to leave little Diego, then nine years old, with his wifes
The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . LA RABIDA CONVENT. 475. ,A IN ARMOR. records of the parish are the names of the sailors who accompanied him and received communion the morninof of their departure. There is also the miracle-workine imao^e of the virgin of La Rabida to which they offered differ as to the time when Columbus first appeared at Palos and the Monastery of La Rabida. Some assert that he came there direct from Portugal in 1484. At this time he was on his way to Moguer, where he intended to leave little Diego, then nine years old, with his wifes relatives, and obtain from them means to pay his way to the court of Ferdinand and Isabella to submit his plans for a voyage across the western ocean to the strange lands described by Marco Polo. Others insist that he didnot visit Palos until two yearslater, after his propositions hadbeen rejected by the sovereigns andhe was leaving Spain for Genoaor Venice. At any rate It is certain that Co-lumbus approached the monasteryone evening, weary, hungry andpenniless, and a
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