Columbus and Magellan There is a remarkable similarity between the careers of the so-called Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan!!
The top secret map of Columbus!! Columbus was living on the island of Madeira in 1486, when a shipwrecked SPANISH sailor named Alonso Sanchez arrived at his house. This captain Sanchez was blown by a hurricane all the way to Santo Domingo. Only 5 survived the return trip, and Columbus killed Sanchez and took his maps. Columbus went to the king of Portugal and offered him his services. The king refused, so Columbus left for Spain. Portuguese failure Magellan was welcomed as a HERO in Spain!! What was it that turned Portuguese FAILURE Magellan into a hero in Spain? It was MAPS.....Top secret MAPS that the Portuguese did not want their bitter rival Spain to know anything about. When Columbus left Portugal, he had the TOP SECRET MAPS of Alonso Sanchez in his possession. He was able to find unknown islands with the maps. When Columbus returned in March, 1493, Spanish Pope Alexander VI gave the New World to Spain. The Portuguese were FURIOUS that the Spanish had outmaneuvered them. They threatened war and the next year (1494) the Treaty of Tordesillas was signed which divided up the entire world between Spain and Portugal. Magellan had John Cabot's maps!! The Portuguese were given all lands to the EAST of the Treaty Line and the Spanish to the West. The Portuguese were very busy monopolizing trade and setting up forts in the Pacific before the Spanish found out about a passage to that ocean. When Magellan arrived in Spain, alarm bells began to ring back in Portugal. They did EVERYTHING they could to sabotage Magellan's fleet. Gasper Corte-Real—the man who killed John Cabot!!
This demonic Portuguese killed the greatest mariner in the entire history of the world. Gasper Corte-Real left Portugal in May, 1500, heading straight for Newfoundland. Portuguese spies in Bristol and London kept King Manuel I minutely informed of the voyages of John Cabot. The Portuguese had plenty of practice in piracy as they raided the entire coast of Africa and India pillaging, destroying and making slaves of the native peoples. Everywhere Venetians sailors went, Portuguese pirates were not far behind to attack their ships and steal their goods. Here is an excerpt about the voyage of Corte-Real from the Venetian ambassador in Portugal to his brother in Venice:
The Cantino world map of 1502 This Portuguese map stolen from Cabot is undoubtedly the first map to show the western continent with the Pacific Ocean. It was the forerunner of the Waldseemuller map of 1507.
Magellan knew EXACTLY where the Straits were located!! Magellan has access to the king's archives and he saw the maps of the New World that John Cabot had made. He saw on the maps a Strait running across the southern part of the New World. That was the information that Emperor Charles V desperately needed to sail westward to the Pacific and challenge the Portuguese. No wonder the Portuguese had a fit when they found out.
Magellan tried to get Philippine chief to worship the CROSS!! Cross worship was rampant in Europe before the blessed Reformation. Wherever Magellan went he set up the infernal CROSS idol and tried to get the native people to worship it. One chief refused to worship this image of the beast, and as a result, Magellan declared war on him and his tribe. This brave chief's name was Lapulapu: Magellan set up a cross on the highest point in the island and commanded ALL to worship it:
Here is a quote from the diary of Antonio Pigafetta:
One chief refused to worship this image of the beast, and as a result, Magellan declared war on him and his tribe. This brave chief's name was Lapulapu: The death of Magellan at the battle of Mactan in 1521 After surviving 2 mutinies and countless storms, Magellan considered himself INVINCIBLE. When he reached the area that is today called the Philippines, he felt an overwhelming urge to convert the natives to Romanism and bring them under the Spanish yoke.
Brave Philippine chief Lapulapu killed Magellan!! Gallant Chief Lapulapu braved overwhelming odds and gave battle to Magellan. He is a role model to people everywhere in the world who will not accept conquest and occupation by a more powerful nation.
As a result of the defeat, most of the islanders reverted back to paganism. They took down Magellan's cross; broke it in pieces and reverted back to worshipping their own idols. Thus ended the natives first encounter with what they were told was Christianity!! Vital Links How the New World was discovered by Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca. Origin of the Columbus map. Editor's Notes It is easy to understand now why the Jesuits NEVER had a Portuguese general. The Portuguese Marquis of Pombal was the first to demand their suppression by the Pope. The Jesuits do throw some crumbs to the Portuguese now and then because Fatima is located in Portugal! Portugal and Spain were fanatical Roman Catholic kingdoms but they were also BITTER rivals. Jesus said:
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