Christopher Columbus

HeatherS | 02:12 Wed 14th Sep 2005 | History

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I am researching Christopher Columbus and how he named the Virgin Islands, I would like to find out why he named them after St. Ursula if she died in 383B.C and he did not discover the Islands until 1493.

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Actually, St. Ursula died at the hands of the Huns in 383 A.D.

The full name applied to the islands by C. Columbus is Santa Ursula y las Once Mil Virgines in honor of Ursula and her (some say) 11,000 virgins...

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