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Your answer was: Discovery of America. |
Answer: In 1992, 500 years after the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, Vatican paid tribute to the thousands of missionaries who evangelized North America. The state of the Church in the United States in the 500th anniversary year of the evangelization of America offers an interesting and unique opportunity, especially given the pre-eminent role America currently holds in world affairs. The year 1492 and its recent anniversary are not often seen in the context of Christian evangelization. Rather, it is seen as the historical fact that opened the way for European emigration–people supposedly fleeing from an old order of rigid religion, absolutist regimes, and economically stagnant feudal economies. 
 Discovery & Evangelization of America 5th Century Christopher Columbus San Pedro Claver Virgin Mary 
 Bartolome de las Casas Blessed Junipero Serra 1542 Nautical Chart 898-903 (1992) |
