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'My life is dreary, He cometh not,' she said; She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, O God, that I were dead!'

The islands were first visited by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521. In 1668, a Spanish Jesuit missionary named Father Diego Luis de San Vitores arrived and renamed the archipelago Islas Mariana in honor of , the widow of King Philip IV of Spain. The name stuck. Mariana