the city registry of Genoa is an “outright forgery.” He declared that Colon secretly remained faithful to his religion all his life and that he held himself to be a direct descendant of King David.
Colon left a secret command to his son and grandson to say Kaddish, the Hebrew memorial prayer, after he had died, David maintained.
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