[url=http://is.gd/6oLz4]A photo of the Cathedral before the earthquake is here[/url] (Hat tip: Brien).
Check out what remains from Mark Harris. Makes the heart sad–KSH.
[url=http://is.gd/6oLz4]A photo of the Cathedral before the earthquake is here[/url] (Hat tip: Brien).
Check out what remains from Mark Harris. Makes the heart sad–KSH.
For those like myself who never saw it before the earthquake, I found [url=http://is.gd/6oLz4]this photo[/url] in flickr.
The cathedral walls were painted by Haitian artists and the cathedral was a place of pilgrimage for those interested in the development of local art. Its destruction is a loss to the community in lots of ways.
Brien in #1 thanks for that photo I have now included it in the original post.
Here is a link to a blog: http://dickstrawser.blogspot.com/2010/01/power-of-music-strength-of-love-haiti.html
which offers a good interior photo of Holy Trinity Cathedral (a quarter of the way down the page) and more important, perhaps, a short video-clip (half-way down) of the Ste. Trinite Orchestre, which was begun by (then) Mother Anne-Marie of The Sisters of St. Margaret in about the 1950s-1960s. Many of the musicians thankfully seem to be turning up alive following the quake.
At my family’s Anglo-Catholic parish the support of the early stages of this orchestra became for some years a major focus of fund-raising, to buy the instruments needed I think. Some will know (but many won’t) that in the 1960-70s Mother Anne-Marie succeeded in engaging the volunteer service of numerous Boston Symphony Orchestra musicians in training the promising young musicians she found in Haiti when the order had assigned her there. It also should not go unsaid that Mother Anne-Marie was staunchly Anglo-Catholic despite a lack of similar conviction among some of the rest of the order. She died much too young in the early 1990s.
I had not thought of it before, but she had planted and tended the early growth of a music movement not unlike ‘El Sistema’ which is taking hope-deprived Venezuelan and more recently Peruvian youth in a welcome new direction (google ‘Gustavo Dudamel/Juan Diego Florez’ for background).
The pictures of the RC Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Port-au-Prince remind me of Coventry after the WWII bombings.
[url=http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2010/01/15/port-au-prince-rc-cathedral-in-ruins-after-haiti-earthquake/]Port-au-Prince RC cathedral in ruins after Haiti earthquake[/url]
The archbishop there was killed.
[url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/15/haiti-port-au-prince-cath_n_425338.html]Before and After[/url]