audiobook The Sealed Portion: The Final Testament of Jesus Christ by Christopher Marc Nemelka in History

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IT HAPPENED! In 1750; fifty-two chests of silver pieces of eight were stolen from a Spanish galleon at Ocracoke; North Carolina; and carried to the West Indies where most of it was buried on Norman Island; a deserted key in the British Virgin Islands. In 1883; Robert Louis Stevenson; published a fictional tale of adventure about an expedition to an unnamed Caribbean island to recover a treasure that had been buried there in 1750. On August 18; 1750; the Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe had left Havana; Cuba; for Cadiz; Spain; with a cargo valued at nearly a million pieces of eight. She had come from Veracruz; Mexico; where she had loaded her precious treasures. The Guadalupe had just completed another historic journey: she had delivered twenty Franciscan priests from Spain; one of which was the legendary Father Junipero Serra; who; through a miracle; saved the ship; her passengers; and her crew from certain doom on the feast day of St. Barbara. Father Serra went on to build nine mission churches in Southern California; leaving us with San Diego; San Juan Capistrano; and San Francisco; among others today. Without this miracle; no treasure would have been buried on a deserted Caribbean island in 1750 and there would have been no Treasure Island. After departing Havana; the Guadalupe was driven over five hundred miles from her intended course that would have taken her across the Atlantic to Spain. Instead; in early September 1750; she was delivered to Teach s Hole at Ocracoke Inlet; North Carolina; for her historic rendezvous with destiny. Just after the hurricane; Owen and John Lloyd; two respected merchant captains from Hampton Roads; Virginia; had departed for St. Kitts unaware of the detour their lives were about to take. Their sloop sprung a leak and diverted to the safety of Ocracoke Inlet where they encountered the disabled galleon. By an extraordinary chain of events; the Lloyd brothers found themselves entrusted to the rescue of over eight tons of silver pieces of eight and other riches by the bungling and arrogant galleon captain; Juan Manuel Bonilla. It was at this same location that the notorious Blackbeard had been killed thirty-two years before. But Blackbeard had to take a back seat to what was about to take place: the two brothers; who had been ravaged at the hands of the Spaniards in the recently ended King George s War; exacted their revenge on the galleon and sailed away with the treasure a haul that outdid the legendary pirate. Now; after nine years of investigation by an international team of researchers; Treasure Island: The Untold Story takes us back to Treasure Island just as Stevenson did in 1883. Only this time; it s not doubloons and pieces of eight that are uncovered but rather an incredible tale that up until now has remained buried in the dust of time.