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New York to Nicaragua: Yesterday, October 15th, 1891
Hello, Catholic Pilgrims. Today's letter is a continuation of what happened on October 15th.
Because I'm a history nut, you get another history lesson today. Mother Cabrini is going to describe steaming past "Fortune Island." This is Long Cay Island located in the Bahamas. It's a tiny thing and today it only has roughly around 50 people living on it. It was named "Fortune Island" by Christopher Columbus because he found a conch shell there.
I'll link a website to Long Cay in the show notes.
Mother then describes passing another island called Castel or Castle Island. This island is directly…
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