Brazil should be called Santa Cruz

submitted by Jiminy from self.whatever

But a Jew named Loronha was put in charge by the Portuguese crown (puppets of Jews) and he changed the name because Cruz means cross and he didn't want it to have anything to do with Christianity. He was friends with Amerigo Vespucci, also Jewish. He had tried to take credit for discovering it instead of Columbus.

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But a Jew named Loronha was put in charge by the Portuguese crown (puppets of Jews) and he changed the name because Cruz means cross and he didn't want it to have anything to do with Christianity.

That's all partly true, but:

  • Fernão de Loronha was not "put in charge" of any land or colony. Rather, he was a merchant who was given a ten-year charter for the commercial rights to export brasilwood.

  • The land at the time was called Vera Cruz, not Santa Cruz.

  • Loronha was not empowered to officially name the land. He informally referred to the land as "Brasil" because he didn't like the Christian "Vera Cruz." And over the decades, the name stuck.

Amerigo Vespucci, also Jewish

I can find no evidence that Vespucci was anything other than an Italian Roman Catholic.