St. Tosia

st.tosia, the island that columbus forgot, where everything is as it is, it comes as it comes, and it all turns out in ecstasy. it is neither issue nor surprise that st.tosia is indeed the island columbus forgot and therefore is not shown on any map of the caribbean; it doesn’t even emerge on google earth. it completely fits the overall representation of columbus that he didn’t know where he was going, he didn’t know where he was when he got there, and he didn’t know where he had been when he came home. in december 1502 on his fourth voyage to the new world, columbus found himself with his two caravels in hurricane conditions for two days. when the storms died down he made sight of an island never seen before and because of the suffering they went through he named it after the patron of the martyrs of dreadful suffering, st.tosia. in the years after columbus’ discovery, the island developed itself in various stages from a pirate nest, to the only serene monastic republic in the western