The story of a great nationOr, Our country's achievements, military, naval, political, and civil . of thereligion to which he was so devoted in life. He was buried in the chapel of the Franciscan friars at Valladolid,but his remains were before Ions transferred to the church of the?Carthusian monks in Seville. It had been his wish to be in the NewWorld he had discovered, and about the year 1540 the boues of thegreat Columbus were borne across the Atlantic; they were then de-posited in the Cathedral of St. Domingo, in a vault on the right ofi:he high altar. Spain abandoned the Island of St. Dom
The story of a great nationOr, Our country's achievements, military, naval, political, and civil . of thereligion to which he was so devoted in life. He was buried in the chapel of the Franciscan friars at Valladolid,but his remains were before Ions transferred to the church of the?Carthusian monks in Seville. It had been his wish to be in the NewWorld he had discovered, and about the year 1540 the boues of thegreat Columbus were borne across the Atlantic; they were then de-posited in the Cathedral of St. Domingo, in a vault on the right ofi:he high altar. Spain abandoned the Island of St. Domingo in 1795,but her officials, when they left the city, took up and conveyed toHavana what were regarded as the bones of Christopher tablet, of which we give an accurate picture, is still to be seen inithe Cathedral at Havana, to mark the spot where they were in 1877 a case wa discovered in the Cathedral of St. Domingo(bearing the name of Christophei Columbus, and the bones foundwithin it are regarded by many as the genuine remains of the Dis-coverer of the New IOlUi or COLUilliUS, IN THE CATHEDKAL, HAVAJMA. \ \
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