About five years later, in 1445, Domenico married Susanna Fontanarossa. Sometime in the late summer or early fall of 1451, probably in September or October, their son Christopher was born. St. Christopher's day was celebrated on 25 July, and one biographer speculates that Columbus may have been born on or near that date.5 Whatever the reasons for the choice of the name, it proved to be prophetic.
( Clark B. Hinckley )
[ Christopher Columbus: "A Man ]
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