The Guadalajara Cathedral
[technical data]
this photo taken with my 'little' camera
in my February trip to Guadalajara
when i can't get around carrying my alpha
my 'big camera' i take along with me this small
canon powershot SD1100 IS
digital elph
it's very small and convenient
and more now than then
takes very cool pictures!
6 comments:
Hallo Berenice,
Good photo. The cathedral looks very dynamic in this posture.
And I had even a look at the website you proposed. They have even a saint inside and the stained glass comes from France.
The story about the president's heart is a bit strange to me. When the man was dead, someone opened him up, tore his heart out to be stored in the cathedral, then they proceeded to bury the rest somewhere else. Well, well.
Georg
Or is this one more customary Mexican death ceremonial?
Georg
Beautiful!
I'm sure I could use the biggest most elaborate camera in the world and wouldn't get nearly as nice a shot....
One thing I've been wondering, though...you call this blog "A Chronology of Stupidity," but I have yet to find anything stupid in it...isn't that false advertising?
hallo herr Georg
glad you liked the photo, i have more! soon...
as for the mexican president's heart, i didn't know that story myself, and NO that's not a mexican tradition! to dis-heart people and bury them separate...
although there was this mexican general and later president, Alvaro Obregon, who lost a leg in a battle in the Mexican Revolution against famous Pancho Villa, they say he asked a priest to say a mass for the leg and they had a funeral and buried it... the same general years later became president and got killed by a fanatic on a Mexico city restaurant, his lost a hand and arm, here a picture of the monument in the place of his death
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25222005@N08/2567020268/sizes/l/in/set-72157605361773178/
curiously he appears with both legs on the statue!
Also on the monument you can see the hand and arm of the Don Alvaro, in a gigantic jar, preserved for eternity... it is indeed a strange sight
as for the saint from France in the Guadalajara cathedral, i am not sure which saint was that one, but very 'miraculous' is considered the mummified body of a 12-years-old girl who was martyred in the 3rd century and was shipped from the Vatican to Guadalajara, could it be her? again it is an almost surreal sight that one of a girl's body behind a glass box, a dead body and we praying around her...
so, yes, Mexico's churches and streets are full of legends & surreal sights like those
dear Id It is...thanks!! :D
Dr. Jay SW, ha! you'll find the stupidity if you look closer... closer... cloooser!
I started this blog to somehow exorcise demons, to take in account the many stupid things i am capable of committing in one day, but then i became more an account of all and nothing, sometimes biographical, sometimes recipes and/or photos, sometimes songs, most of the times something irrelevant... but i promise you if you keep on reading, you'll come across something stupid soon!
(i rather keep it low, as you see, that way there's no room for disappointments heh heh)
Hi, Bere, it is a beautiful picture. Did you take this picture around sunset? The orangish color on the cathedral makes this picture somehow nostalgic.
hi dear Lisa!
yes! i took it at the sunset time, i love this time of the day, and you are right, the orange color of the sunset makes one nostalgic, i think is because we know another day is over...
have a lovely weekend!
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