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| Title: | Transfiguracion del Divino Salvador del Mundo |
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| Notes: | "The Cathedral site is the place where the old Temple of Santo Domingo (dedicated to St. Dominic) once stood. An even greater toll was exacted on Palm Sunday, March 30, 1980, during the funeral of Saint Óscar Romero (who was assassinated Monday, March 24, 1980, while celebrating Mass at a small chapel located in a hospital called "La Divina Providencia"), when 44 people were killed during a stampede after some elements, allegedly members of security forces (although it has never been corroborated) fired on mourners/worshippers and on Romero's funeral cortege, the real gunmen were never identified. Later, the square in front of the cathedral was the site of rapturous celebrations after the signing of the Chapultepec Peace Accords that ended the Salvadoran Civil War in 1992. The cathedral was completed and inaugurated on March 19, 1999, and finished off with a festive tiled facade by the Salvadoran master Fernando Llort.[1]The church was twice visited by Pope John Paul II who said that the cathedral was "intimately allied with the joys and hopes of the Salvadoran people."[2] During his visits in 1983 and 1996, the Pope knelt and prayed before the tomb of Archbishop Óscar Romero, assassinated in 1980, whose tomb here is a major pilgrim draw. President Barack Obama visited the cathedral and the tomb during his March 2011 trip to Latin America.In late December 2012, the Archbishop of San Salvador, José Luis Escobar Alas, ordered the removal of the tiled ceramic mural facade of the cathedral without consulting the national government or the artist, the Salvadoran master Fernando Llort. Workers chipped off and destroyed all the 2,700 tiles of the mural.[3]" [translated from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Salvador_Cathedral] |
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| Date: | 1999 |
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| Building: | Catedral Metropolitana del Divino Salvador del Mundo
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| Object/Function: | Architecture |
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| City/Town: | San Salvador
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| Country: | El Salvador
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| Scripture: | Luke 9:28-36, (37-43)
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| Lectionary links: | CTran
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| General Subject: | Transfiguration of Jesus
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| Attribution: | Transfiguracion del Divino Salvador del Mundo, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=55378 [retrieved April 30, 2024]. Original source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Transfiguracion_salvador_del_mundo4_2011.JPG. |
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| Record Number: | 55378
Last Updated: 2021-12-06 08:41:17
Record Created: 2012-10-29 11:15:20 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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