Some quotes on this Christopher Columbus Day:

“He was first a Christian, second an adventurer, third a genius, fourth a visionary, fifth a real father, and finally a man of action. O that we had such men in our own time.” Theodore Roosevelt “Your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes who love the holy Christian faith, and the propagation of it, and who are enemies to the sect of Mohammed and to all idolatries and heresies, resolved to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the said parts of India to see the said princes, and the people and lands, and to learn of their disposition, and the proper method of converting them to our holy faith.”
-Columbus to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella  October 1492