Family Theater: The First Voyage of Columbus

Family Theater presents Donna Atwood. I'm Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater presents the first voyage of Columbus. And now here is your hostess Donna Atwood. Thank you, Tony Lefano.

Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives. If we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families and peace for the world.

Family Theater urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. Anal to our transcribed drama, The First Voyage of Columbus, featuring Jan Arvan as Christopher Columbus. When we think of Columbus, most of us first remember the rhyme we learned in school.

To help us remember the date of his discovery of America. In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Then perhaps we find before our mind's eye The picture of his three ships, the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina, moving before the wind, on the green and swelling vastness of an unknown sea.

For this is what most of us consider the voyage of Columbus. But actually, it was only a small part of his journey. It really began when Columbus, unheralded and unknown, was making his way across Spain to Cortava, to the court of Isabella and Ferdinand.

Chance or perhaps an act of God caused him to stop at Palos at the convent of Santa Maria de la Robita. And it was there that he was given his first real hope of success when he told his plan to follow Juan Perez de Marcina, the guardian of the convent, and a noted cosmographer whose

work was known to the Queen. reach the east by sailing west. I believe the plan is sound, but the motive? My primary motive, Father, would be the extension of Christianity to the Eastern world. Hmm, primary? Not the spices, the silks and riches of the east.