Matamoros statue in the Cathedral

[Jen Seeler]

Santiago Matamoros images are all over Spain.  Some like that in Logrono cannot be relocated.   It is part of the Spanish history/mythology that Santiago returned to help free the country from "the Moors."    

This image has been carried to the new world.  In January I was in Peru and saw a "Santiago Mata-Inca" statue in the  cathedral in Cuzco, Santiago helping the "conquistadores" subjugate and kill the native Inca population.   

     jean seeler
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Charles Hansen <VeloTrainaPEOPLEPC.COM>
  To: GOCAMINOapete.uri.edu <GOCAMINOapete.uri.edu>
  Date: Friday, April 30, 2004 12:24 PM
  Subject: Re: Matamoros statue in the Cathedral


  Rosina and all -

  While I understand Spain's withdrawal of its troops from Iraq, as 90% of the
  country didn't want them there in the first place, I find this current
  action discomforting.  It could be the first measure on a long road of
  appeasing terrorists by removing all indications of anything that could be
  taken as anti-Muslim.  As the radical extremists have an avowed goal of
  killing anyone who does not believe as they do and clearly have no tolerance
  for other religions - or even less extreme interpretations of their own -
  this course strikes me as a troubling direction.  Removing a statue because
  it is no longer considered to be representative of the church in its highest
  aspirations is one thing, but doing so in the hopes that terrorists will be
  less likely to strike seems cowardly and makes me wonder what other
  compromises will be made in false hopes of being protected.

  Charles


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