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The
Portuguese Christopher Columbus!! |
The
Italian Genoese "Christopher Columbus" is just a 500
year old MYTH created by the Spanish Inquisition to take the place
of the real Genoese Discoverer of the New World—John Cabot!! |
Columbus the son of a wool-comber!!
"Christopher Columbus, or Columbo, as the name is written in Italian, was born in the city of Genoa, about the year 1435. He was the son of Dominico Colombo, a wool-comber, and Susannah Fonatanarossa, his wife, and it would seem that his ancestors had followed the same handicraft for several generations in Genoa. Attempts have been made to prove him of illustrious descent, and several noble houses have laid claim to him since his name has become so renowned as to confer rather than receive distinction." (Irving, Life & Voyages of Christopher Columbus, p. 17).
According to Irving, Columbus—the son of a wool-comber— was a manual laborer who prepared WOOL for spinning. There is an expression in English: "to pull the WOOL over your eyes" and it means to lie or deceive somebody....That is what Columbus did with the wool!!
Next we meet with the common sailor "Columbus" living on the Portuguese island of Madeira and married to a Portuguese lady of noble birth:
"While at Lisbon, he was accustomed to attend religious services at the chapel of the Convent of All Saints. In this convent were certain ladies of rank, either resident as boarders, or in some religious capacity. With one of these Columbus became acquainted. She was Doña Felipa, daughter of Bartolomeu Moñis de Perestrelo, an Italian cavalier, lately deceased, who had been one of the most distinguished navigators under Prince Henry, and had colonized and governed the island of Porto Santo. The acquaintance soon ripened into attachment, and ended in marriage."(Irving, Life & Voyage of Christopher Columbus, p. 30).
Society at that time was strictly STRATIFIED and a COMMONER did not marry into the nobility. So this wool-comber "Columbus" is just a myth.
Columbus and Magellan
It is almost impossible to unmask the real Portuguese Columbus without looking at the career of another fake Portuguese discoverer named Ferdinand Magellan.
Around 800 A.D., merciless mercenary Viking pirates began raiding the coasts of Western Europe, killing Christians, burning their books, and destroying their history. These terrorists gained a foothold in France called Normandy and used that country to invade England in 1066. A century later they invaded Hibernia (Ireland) and made that country Roman Catholic. They also invaded the western coast of Spain and that enclave later became the country that we call Portugal today. In 1373, this Viking enclave received military help from Roman Catholic England in order to maintain its existence as a separate nation from Spain!!
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Portuguese Zarco/Columbus (c.1436 - 1506). |
The
2 greatest fake discoverers in the entire history of
the world came from the Vatican created country of Portugal!! |
Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan (1468-1521). |
After Zarco arrived in Spain from Portugal in 1487, he joined the witness protection program. That means that he assumed a totally new identity and became known as Christopher Columbus from Genoa, Italy. This was done to protect him from the wrath of the Portuguese and substitute him for John Cabot— the real Genoese Discoverer of the New World.
The Dominican and Franciscan monks— normally bitter enemies— cooperated in creating the myth of the Italian Columbus. During the past 500 years, vast fortunes and oceans of ink have been used to perpetuate and keep the myth alive.
We feel confident that Christopher Columbus was Portuguese and that his real name was Salvador Fernandes Zarco and his ancestors were probably VIKINGS!!
Zarco/Columbus was born on the island of Madeira
Because Columbus named a Caribbean island CUBA, some say he was from Cuba in Portugal. His father, João Gonçalves Zarco, might have come from Cuba, Portugal, but we think that he was born on the island of Madeira.
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Madeira Islands, the birthplace of Zarco/Columbus. |
The 2 islands known as the Madeiras were discovered in 1419 by João Gonçalves Zarco, Tristão Vaz Teixeira and Bartolomeu Perestrelo. The discoverers were actually blown by a storm from Portugal to the Madeiras and the two islands of Porto Santo and Madeira were claimed for Portugal. They began to colonize the two islands with people from Portugal. Columbus, like Magellan, was of noble birth and his real name was probably Salvador Fernandez Zarco. In 1478, Columbus married a daughter of Bartolomeu Perestrelo named Doña Felipa Perestrelo, and they lived on the island of Madeira. |
In 1486, 5 shipwrecked Spanish sailors died in the house of Zarco/Columbus after returning from a voyage to the West Indies!!
Up to this time, all we really know about Zarco/Columbus was that he was married and living on the island of Madeira. Here is a quote from the Royal Commentaries of the Incas by Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca:
" ...And because of the delay they ran out of water and supplies. For this reason and because of the great privations they had suffered on both journeys, they began to sicken and die, and of seventeen men who left Spain, no more than five reached Terceira, among them the pilot Alonso Sanchez de Huelva. They stayed at the house of the famous Genovese Christopher Columbus, because they knew he was a great pilot and cosmographer and made seamen's charts. He received them kindly and entertained them lavishly so as to learn the things that had happened on the long and strange voyage they said they had undergone. But they arrived so enfeebled by hardships that Christopher Columbus could not restore them to health despite his attentions, and they all died in his house, leaving him the heir to the hardships that had caused their death" (Royal Commentaries of the Incas, vol. 1, pp. 12-14).
Zarco/Columbus goes to the king of Portugal
With the dead pilot's maps and charts in his possession, Columbus went to King John II of Portugal and gave him a long list of demands as his price for "discovering" new islands. The king refused his offer and sent his own expedition using the dead pilot's maps and charts. The expedition turned back empty handed because Zarco, like Magellan, made some changes to the maps . . . just in case someone should steal his discovery!!
When they returned, Zarco/Columbus was furious and decided to get revenge by offering his services to Portugal's bitter rival: Spain.
Columbus in Spain
In 1487, Columbus arrived in Spain and stayed at the Franciscan monastery of Santa María de la Rábida near Palos. He made several attempts to contact Ferdinand and Isabella with his great "discovery" but they were too busy fighting the Moors in Granada.
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Franciscan monastery Santa María de la Rábida. Columbus's headquarters before his great voyage of discovery. |
Miraculously the 700 year old war with the Moors ended in January 1491, and the Spanish army was suddenly unemployed. After receiving minute details of the voyages of John Cabot, the Catholic Sovereigns decided to give Columbus all the titles and money that he demanded. Using the dead pilot's maps to guide him, he sets sail on August 3, 1492, with 3 ships: the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa María. Martin Pinzón, captain of the Niña, was first to land on Santo Domingo!!
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Columbus knew EXACTLY where he was going!!
Like Magellan, Columbus knew exactly the route to take on his voyage of discovery!!
The route of the first voyage of discovery. Columbus knew how to take the guesswork out of sailing the broad ocean.
The Bull of Borgia was aimed at the Portuguese . . . and English!!
Without an understanding of the bitter rivalry between Spain and Portugal it is impossible to completely understand the Columbus saga. Just as Columbus was about to sail, the Spanish engineered a coup d'état at the Vatican and Spanish Pope Alexander VI was "elected" Pope. Here is an excerpt from the infamous Bull of Borgia giving the entire New World exclusively to Spain:
"Furthermore, under penalty of excommunication late sententie to be incurred ipso facto, should anyone thus contravene, we strictly forbid all persons of whatsoever rank, even imperial and royal, or of whatsoever estate, degree, order, or condition, to dare, without your special permit or that of your aforesaid heirs and successors, to go for the purpose of trade or any other reason to the islands or mainlands, found and to be found, discovered and to be discovered, towards the west and south, by drawing and establishing a line from the Arctic pole to the Antarctic pole.... Let no one, therefore, infringe, or with rash boldness contravene, this our recommendation, exhortation, requisition, gift, grant, assignment, constitution, deputation, decree, mandate, prohibition, and will. Should anyone presume to attempt this, be it known to him that he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul.
Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, in the year of the incarnation of our Lord one thousand four hundred and ninety-three, the fourth of May, and the first year of our pontificate" (Papal Bull granting the New World to Spain, May 4, 1493).
Portugal did not exist before 1139
The first king of what we know today as Portugal was Alphonse I (1139-1185). More countries mean more wars so the Vatican created Portugal out of the chaos of the Visigothic, Moorish, and Viking invasions, and during the darkest hours of the Dark Ages.
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Portugal was a rogue state created by the Vatican in 1139. |
The Portuguese were pioneers in the modern slave movement. They raided the coast of Africa and brought back slaves to be sold on the European market. They were the first to obtain Papal approval of their conquests and piracy. In 1455, Pope Nicholas V published a Bull entitled Romanus Pontifex in which he gave Portugal the exclusive right to conquer and enslave ALL non-Roman Catholics. This Bull was the forerunner of the deadly Bull of Pope Alexander VI which gave exclusive right to Spain to conquer and enslave the New World natives. |
Roman Catholic England saved Portugal from extinction!!
The Dark Age pirate/terrorists known as Vikings raided the Atlantic coast of Spain for centuries and Rome was able to establish a beachhead there. The Vikings also established a beachhead in France called Normandy and from there invaded England . . . and later Ireland!!
After gaining control of the entire country, the Vatican broke up Spain into DIOCESES and then merged 4 of those DIOCESES to create a country called Portugal. Many times the kings of Spain tried to expunge the cancerous growth called Portugal. Portugal was saved from extinction by a military alliance with Roman Catholic England.
The Roman Catholic archbishop of the DIOCESES of Braga arranged for a marriage between the king of Portugal and Philippa, daughter of the English John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.
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Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal. |
In 1373, Portugal was almost at the point of extinction by Spain when the archbishop of Braga arranged for an English army to come to the aid of Portugal. In 1376, the two countries signed a peace treaty (Treaty of Windsor) and Philippa, daughter of the Duke of Lancaster, married the king of Portugal Thus was created a military alliance between Portugal and England which saved the rogue state from extinction. After the Reformation, Spain almost went bankrupt financing the Spanish Armada in order to force England to return to Rome!! |
Queen Philippa is called the mother of the Portuguese Empire. She was the mother of the so-called Henry the Navigator who should have been called Henry the Pirate!!
Portugal is the home of the deadly Fatima Crusaders!!
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Fatima, Portugal. |
The Moors first invaded Spain in the year 711. They named a small town in Spain after FATIMA —the 11th wife of Mohammad. The wars continued for centuries with the Vatican financing BOTH sides. In 1139, a Spanish king named Alphonse I managed to create an independent kingdom and called it Portugal. Immediately Spain and Portugal became bitter rivals. As the Portuguese commenced their piracy down the coast of Africa they asked the Pope to confirm their conquests with a Papal Bull which he willingly did in 1455. The Spanish countered this with their own Bull of 1493 which gave THEM exclusive right to conquer and enslave the entire New World. |
Official Chronology of Salvador Fernandes Zarco a.k.a. Christopher Columbus!!
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1436 |
Portuguese Salvador Fernandez Zarco a.k.a. Christopher Columbus is born on the island of Madeira. |
1479
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Zarco/Columbus marries a Portuguese lady of royal birth named Doña Felipa Perestrello. She is the daughter of one of the discoverers of the 2 Madeira Islands. |
1486
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After surviving a horrific hurricane that blew their ship all the way to the island of Santo Domingo in the New World, Alonso Sánchez the pilot and 4 Spanish sailors are shipwrecked on the island of Madeira . . . and they all die in the house of Columbus....He steals the maps and charts showing the location of the New World....Columbus approaches the king of Portugal in order to finance his voyage of "discovery" but the king refuses to meet his demands. Columbus's wife Doña Felipa also dies mysteriously leaving him with a 5 year old son, Diego. |
1487
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Columbus arrives in Spain and he presents his great idea for the "discovery" of new islands to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. They are busy fighting the Moors and they also refuse to meet his demands. |
1492
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After receiving minute details of the voyages of John Cabot, the Catholic sovereigns decide to give Columbus all the titles and money that he demanded....Using the dead pilot's maps to guide him, he sets sail on August 3 with 3 ships: the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa María. Martin Pinzón, captain of the Niña, is first to land on Santo Domingo!! |
1493
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In March, only the Niña and the Pinta return to Spain because Columbus wrecks his ship the Santa María. Before going to Barcelona to meet the King and Queen, Martin Pinzón invites Columbus to stay at his house . . . and he dies a few days later....Pope Alexander VI —a Spanish Pope—issues a Papal Bull (official Vatican document) giving the entire New World to Spain and warning every other nation not to even think about going there!! |
1498 |
On his 3rd voyage, Columbus finally reaches the coast of Venezuela and sees the New World mainland for the first time— 4 years after John Cabot. By this time, the news of the shipwrecked Spanish sailors is everywhere so Columbus decides to get revenge by killing and enslaving the New World natives....The Spanish Inquisition was also very anxious to occupy and set up forts on the islands and mainland in order to attack any Portuguese or English ships that appeared. |
1502 |
Columbus leaves Spain on his 4th voyage to the New World. |
1504 |
He arrives back in Spain a total failure after losing 2 ships. |
1506 |
Columbus dies of old age in Valladolid, Spain, on May 20, 1506. No living portrait of Columbus exists. The only portrait that is supposed to be close to his likeness is the one in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid. |
Vital Links
Royal Commentaries of the Incas
Comentarios Reales De Los Incas
References
Barreto, Mascarenhas. The Portuguese Columbus: Secret Agent of King John II. (Translated from Portuguese by Reginald Brown), St. Martin's Press, New York, 1992.
Catz, Rebecca. Christopher Columbus and the Portuguese, (1476-1498). Greenwood Press, Westport, CT., 1993.
Marques, António Henrique R. de Oliveira. History of Portugal. (in 2 volumes). Columbia University Press, New York, 1972.
Miller, Richard Roscoe, LL. B. Slavery and Catholicism. North State Publishers, Durham, North Carolina, 1957. (An EXCELLENT source of information on the Roman Catholic origin of Old World and New World slavery).
Irving, Washington. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. Belford Company Publishers, New York. 1836.
Taviani, Emilio Paolo.Christopher Columbus, The Grand Design. Orbis Publishing Ltd., London, 1985.
Vega, Garcilaso de la, El Inca. Royal Commentaries of the Incas. 2 volumes, University of Texas Press, 1966.
Copyright © 2007 by Niall Kilkenny