Spain Seeks Sainthood For Queen Isabella

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Monumental statue of Isabella and Ferdinand:

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Cathedral of Segovia where Isabella was proclaimed Queen of Castile:

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Isabella hearing "the crazy project" proposed by Christopher Columbus:

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At some point the Court
was placed at the
Alcazar of Segovia, at
the very heart of
Castille:

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Against her husband's wishes and advise Queen Isabella decided to support Columbus and her decision changed the world:

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Tomb of the great Queen Isabella of Castile:

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Queen Isabella's daughter, Isabella of Castile and Aragon, Princess of Asturias and Queen of Portugal:



she died giving birth to Prince Miguel of Portugal who died at 2 years old

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Queen Isabella's daughter, Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England:



and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, Queen of England:

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Queen Isabella's daughter Joanna "the mad" Queen of Castile and Aragon:



and her grandson Charles V, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor:

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Queen Isabella's daughter Maria of Castile and Aragon, Queen of Portugal:



and her granddaughter Isabella of Portugal, Queen of Spain and Holy Roman Empress:

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Queen Isabella's only son John of Castile and Aragon, Prince of Asturias:



Prince John died 6 months after his marriage to Margaret of Habsburg, Archduchess of Austria (who gave birth to a stillborn child):

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Queen Isabella's crown and sword:



They are located at the "Capilla Real", Granada, the same place where the Queen is interred with her husband King Ferdinand.

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Other descendants of Queen Isabella:

Granddaughter- Eleanor of Habsburg, Queen of France (consort of King Francis I):



Granddaughter- Isabella of Habsburg, Queen of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (consort to King Christian II):



Grandson- Ferdinand I of Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor and King of Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia and Slavonia:

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Granddaughter- Catherine of Habsburg, Queen of Portugal (consort to King John III):



Great granddaughter- Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Lorraine (consort to Francis I) the current monarchs of Denmark, Norway and Sweden are descendants of this Princess:



Grandson- John III of Aviz, King of Portugal:



Great grandson- Philip II of Habsburg, King of Spain (the houses of Habsburg and Borbon descend from this King, through his granddaughters Maria Ana of Habsburg, Holy Roman Empress and Ana of Habsburg, Queen of France):



Great grandson- Maximilian I of Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor



Great granddaughter, Joanna of Habsburg, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (consort to Francesco I de Medici) mother of Maria de Medici, Queen of France and mother of King Louis XIII (the houses of Borbon, Borbon Parma, Borbon-Two Sicilies and Borbon-Orleans descend from this princess):

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Great grandson- Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (married to Margaret Valois, Princess of France), the houses Of Savoy, Mantua and Modena descend from this prince:



Great granddaughter Archduchess Ana of Habsburg, Duchess of Bavaria (ancestress of the Royal House of Bavaria):



Great granddaughter- Margaret of Habsburg, Duchess of Parma (Consort to Ottavio Farnese) ancestress of the Royal House of Borbon-Parma:

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Originally Posted by Jacqueline

Spain seeks sainthood for Isabella
By Isambard Wilkinson in Madrid
(Filed: 23/04/2003)

Spain's Roman Catholic bishops are to petition the Pope to canonise Queen Isabella of Castile, one of history's most vilified monarchs.

Senior churchmen led by Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco, the Archbishop of Madrid, yesterday revived a campaign asking that Queen Isabella be beatified, the first step towards being made a saint.

They hope for her to be beatified next year to mark the 500th anniversary of her death.

During her tempestuous 15th century reign, Isabella conquered much of Latin America for the Vatican, ended the 700-year presence of Moors and Jews on the Iberian Peninsula and assured the hegemony of Castile and the Catholic Church in Spain.

"We have investigated every aspect of this controversial and fascinating woman and it appears to be the time to abandon intransigence and see her in the context of her time and environment," said Jose Delicado, the Archbishop of Vallodolid, at the launch of the campaign, which was attended by Latin American ambassadors to Madrid.

Earlier attempts to launch Isabella - or La Catolica as she became known - on the road to sainthood ended in ignominy.

Waves of protest accompanied a 1999 initiative, with her detractors accusing her of exiling Jews and Muslims from Spain, instigating genocide in Latin America and setting up the Inquisition, which tortured and burnt hundreds of her countrymen at the stake.

The dictator Gen Franco instigated a campaign for Isabella's canonisation in 1952, believing that she embodied the ideals of "national Catholicism" along with its connotations of religious and racial purity.

But her popularity with Franco tarnished her image and the Vatican put to one side the 217 volumes and 800,000 documents sent to them by the then archbishop of Vallodolid.

Article From: news.telegraph.co.uk

Honestly I don't think she should be granted sainthood either but the people of the 15th century she did what was best for her people like all the kings and queens must think for their people.

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I do think she should be a saint. I've always admired the fact that her country and her religion meant so much to her. I mean, she went out in battle herself, while she was pregnant.

I think to her her religion and her country were the most important thing.

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If intolerance and bigotry are prerequisites for sainthood than she should be made a saint. Otherwise she should not. She was an acommplice to the murder and destruction of innocent human beings, just because they were different than she. She really was no better than Hitler, except for the time of civilization.

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While an important historical figure, she certainly wasn't a saint. Not with religious persecution and genocide on her resume.

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She behaved as she behaved because the Church she trusted said it was the right way of behaving. She was a saint so.
As a Catholic, the problem for me is that the Church seems now to have changed its way of seeing things: so now why should one person work hard trying to do what the Church tell him to do if in few centuries they will change their mind??