Did You Know That America Traces Its Name to a Medieval Hungarian Saint?

November 5, 2025 World News

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Left: Detail of St. Emeric from a 1478 painting in the Church of Spišská Kapitula, Slovakia. Right: Charles Willson Peale, “Amerigo Vespucci,” 1816, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

How a Catholic explorer, a priest cartographer, and an 11th-century saint and prince gave us ‘America.’

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