" Nearby is the tomb of his father, that
Rodrigo de Bastidas who was imprisoned by Bobadilla, and an epitaph
full of abbreviations which reads:
"Here lies the very magnificent Sir Don Rodrigo de Bastidas, first
Adelantado and Governor and Captain-General of Santa Marta, who in the
year 1502 discovered Terra-firma by order of the Catholic Sovereigns
from Cape Vela to Darien: he died March 28, 1527."
Close by is another epitaph:
"Here lies the virtuous, Christian and religious lady Dona Isabel
Rodrigo de Romera, native of the noble town of Carmona, who was wife
of the Adelantado Don Rodrigo de Bastidas and mother of the most
reverend Bishop of San Juan, Don Rodrigo de Bastidas. She died
September 15, 1533. May she rest in peace."
And in Latin:
"I believe that my Redeemer lived and that on the judgment day I shall
be resurrected."
In another chapel is a slab ten feet long with an elaborate coat of
arms, surmounted by a helmet with flowing plumes, and having an
inscription reading:
"Here lies the magnificent knight Diego Caballero, councilor of this
Island of Espanola, first secretary of the first Royal Audiencia which
the Catholic Sovereigns established in these Indies.
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