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Mandeville, LA - [The following is excerpted from Brother André Marie's "The Catholic Venture of Christopher Columbus".]  "Dejected and practically reduced to begging, Columbus accepted the hospitality of a Franciscan monastery. The Prior, Father Juan Perez, happened to be the Queen’s confessor and he took a strong interest in the extraordinarily zealous seafarer. (It was Father Perez who later was to celebrate the first Mass in America — on the Feast […]