Fray Juan Pérez

Fray Juan Perez was a Franciscan friar and guardian of the convent of La Rabida (Andalusia). He was also Confessor to Queen Isabel I and accompanied Columbus on his second voyage to the New World, whe.. Дивитись далі »re in 1493, he was credited with establishing the first church. He later became the guardian of the first convent which Columbus ordered to be erected at Santo Domingo. Thereafter, all trace of him was lost. Whether he returned to La Rábida or died in America is uncertain. All we know is that, in the legal dispute between Diego and Columbus, the royal fiscal, Dr. Garcia Hernandes, testified in 1513 that Father Perez was then dead.

Країна:	Іспанія
Тип:	Поштові марки
Серія:	Discovery of America (1987)
Номінал:	32 Pta
Рік:	1987
Розмір:	50 x 29 mm
Перфорація:	comb 12¾ x 13¼
Тираж:	6,000,000