Enigma of Religious Presence on Columbus' First Voyage

Did a priest or friar accompany Christopher Columbus on his First Voyage?  Peter Sloterdijk parenthetically notes that Columbus traversed the Atlantic unaccompanied by a representative of religious authorities in his book In the World Interior of Capital. Out of academic honesty, he acknowledges a single counterexample to his thesis that the living space of the ship incorporates the structure of the homeland. Considering the inhospitable space of the ocean and the trajectory into the unknown, the absence of a cleric seems strange.
An account of early forays to Terra Incognito by Franciscans suggests that Father Juan Perez de Marchena, and a companion, may have accompanied Columbus on the 1492 voyage.  The source is a text by Father Antonio Deza which chronicles the deeds of priests planting the seeds of Christianity in the New World.  (see History of Religious Orders, by Charles Warren Currier, 1898). But there is the dispute over the translation of "secunda." Does "secunda" mean "safe/prosperous" or "second?"
"ad eas partes secunda navigatione trajecere."
Why is this dispute important? The various Catholic orders wanted to claim the title of being the first to say mass in the new world.