During the Age of Discovery, the Catholic Church inaugurated a major effort to spread Christianity in the New World, Asia, and Africa, and to convert the Indigenous peoples of the Americas and other i
The convent of San Augustin, a mission centre established at Yuriria, Mexico in 1550
La Virgen de Candelaria, Patron of the Canary Islands
An early visitor to California sketched a group of Costeño dancers at Mission San José with their bodies painted to resemble the patterns in Spanish military uniforms.
The Altar of St. Francis Xavier Parish in Nasugbu, Batangas, Philippines. St. Francis is the principal patron of the town, together with Our Lady of Escalera.
Inter caetera
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Inter caetera was a papal bull issued by Pope Alexander VI on 4 May 1493, which granted to the Catholic Monarchs King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile all lands to the "west and
Catholic Church and the Age of Discovery
…Bull Aeterni regis granted all lands south of the Canary Islands to Portugal, while in May 1493 the Spanish-born Pope Alexander VI decreed in the Bull Inter caetera that all lands west of a meridian only 100 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands should belong to Spain while new lands discovered east of that line…
The Cantino planisphere of 1502 shows the line of the Treaty of Tordesillas.