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- <text id=91TT0006>
- <title>
- Jan. 07, 1991: World Notes:The Vatican
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Jan. 07, 1991 Men Of The Year:The Two George Bushes
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 66
- World Notes
- THE VATICAN
- Was Isabella Good Enough?
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Should Queen Isabella of Spain become a saint, in time for
- the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America? To
- admirers pushing her candidacy, she was a wise and pious ruler
- who commissioned the explorer's voyage in 1492, bringing
- Catholicism to the New World. But others remember her as the
- monarch who expelled Jews and Muslims from Spain and presided
- over the Inquisition. Both views must be weighed by the Vatican,
- which has received a petition from an Argentine-born priest
- asking that Isabella be canonized by 1992, when the church plans
- to celebrate 500 years of Christianity in the Americas.
- </p>
- <p> The proposal has enraged many Spanish Jews and Muslims, who
- regard her as a symbol of intolerance and have vowed to oppose
- her elevation.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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