Matamoros statue in the Cathedral

[Charles Hansen]

It would seem on the surface that the Peruvian statue should be the opposite, of the invaders being expelled!

Charles


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jen Seeler 
  To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU 
  Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 1:16 PM
  Subject: Re: Matamoros statue in the Cathedral


  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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