Sunday, 9 May 2010
Brazil
In 1500 the Portuguese explorer Pedro Cabral, on landing at the newly discovered thousands of miles across the ocean, built a wooden cross and together with his crew they knelt before it and kissed it. This was to demonstrate to the natives their veneration for the cross. Cabral named this new land, “Vera Cruz”, meaning “True Cross”, though others are calling it ‘Brazil’ after the brazilwood found on the coast.
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