Bartholomew Columbus

Vsciti costoro della casa di Oratione, gittarono le imagini in terra, & le coprirono col terreno, & poi vi pisciarono sopra, dicendo, Hor saranno buoni, & grandi i tuoi frutti: & questo, percioche le sepelirono in vn campo lauorato, dicendo, che sarebbe buono il frutto, che vi si era piantato. & questo tutto per vituperio. Il che veduto da' fanciulli, che erano alla guardia della detta casa di Oratione, per commandamento de' sopradetti Catecumini, corsero a' maggiori, i quali erano alle loro possessioni, & lor dissero, che la gente di Guarionex haueua stratiate, & vituperate le imagini. La qual cosa intesa da loro, lasciarono quel, che faceuano, & corsero gridando a farlo intendere a Don Bartolomeo Colombo, il quale era in quel gouerno per l'Ammiraglio suo fratello, che se n'era andato in Castiglia. Questi, come luogotenente del Vicerè, & Gouernatore delle Isole, formò processo contra i malfattori: &, saputa la verità, gli fece abbruciar publicamente.

When the men came out of the house of prayer, they threw the images on the ground and covered them with earth. Then they urinated on them, saying, “Now your crops will be good and big.” They said this because they had buried the images in a planted field, and they said the crop planted there would be good. All this was done as an insult. The boys guarding the house of prayer for the catechumens saw this. They ran to the elders, who were out in their fields, and told them that Guarionex's people had mangled and insulted the images. When the elders heard this, they dropped what they were doing. They ran, shouting, to report it to Don Bartolomé Columbus. He was governing there for his brother the Admiral, who had gone to Castile. As lieutenant of the Viceroy and Governor of the Islands, he put the wrongdoers on trial. When he had learned the truth, he had them burned in public.