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This is the Kartarpur Beerh.This is the Saroop that Sree Guru Arjan Dev Jee Maharaaj recited,and Bhai Gurdaas Sahib Jee handwrote.
Je voulais faire une photo de Lewis assis ou couché sagement dans les fleurs. Pfft, autant lui demander de réciter un poème. Finalement j'ai quand même réussi une photo pas trop moche car il a entendu un cheval arriver et s'est figé (ensuite il faut être très rapide avant qu'il ne devienne hystérique)
I wanted to make a picture of Lewis sitting or lying still in the flowers. Phew, it's the same as asking him to recite a poem. Finally I still managed a more or less good picture because he heard a horse and froze (then you have to be very fast before he gets hysterical)
This is the Kartarpur Beerh.This is the Saroop that Sree Guru Arjan Dev Jee Maharaaj recited,and Bhai Gurdaas Sahib Jee handwrote.
‘Reciters of the Night’
An attempt to create an atmospheric eerie image of Dartmoor pine trees in the beautifully spooky dense fog. You can imagine an owls hoot echoing through the woods. My idea was based on the forest scene from the film ‘Dead Poets Society’.
I’ve added the torch light beams in photoshop to create the mood of the students running through the trees to secretly meet up to recite old scary poems.
Skip to 1:45 on this clip and you’ll see what I mean.
I remember being 16 and awkward and reciting how I'd ask a girl out over the phone and then holding the phone in sheer terror for tens of minutes, if not hours, waiting to be ready to fail. I get that same exact feeling when calling art directors I've never spoken to.
Buddhist monks reciting Pali scripts in a monastery in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)
Many monasteries in bigger towns or cities in Myanmar are also Buddhist learning centres. Novices and young monks from rural areas often leave their villages and move to a bigger city to join a Buddhist learning centre to study Buddhism for a few years.
After they finished their Buddhist studies they return to their villages to teach Buddhism in small monasteries. One important part of their study is the reciting of Pali scripts. Pali is the sacred language of Buddhism.
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A medieval scene: The apprentice gets assistance reciting a birth charm... Layering, textures and brush effects applied in Photoshop.
Daniel Tammet is one of only 50 savants in the world and the stuff he can do is remarkable. Back in 2004, Daniel recited Pi to 22 thousand five hundred and fourteen digits. It took more than 5 hours! Daniel was born with Asperger's syndrome - a high-functioning form of autism and he developed something called Synesthesia. It means he sees numbers and letters in colour. He also associates numbers with emotions and shapes. His memoir 'Born on a Blue Day' is a New York Times best seller and he's just written a new book called 'Embracing the Wide Sky'.
Check out his interview with George here - www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos.html?id=999589223
Daniel Tammet is one of only 50 savants in the world and the stuff he can do is remarkable. Back in 2004, Daniel recited Pi to 22 thousand five hundred and fourteen digits. It took more than 5 hours! Daniel was born with Asperger's syndrome - a high-functioning form of autism and he developed something called Synesthesia. It means he sees numbers and letters in colour. He also associates numbers with emotions and shapes. His memoir 'Born on a Blue Day' is a New York Times best seller and he's just written a new book called 'Embracing the Wide Sky'.
Check out his interview with George here - www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos.html?id=999589223
I watched this swing and was going to recite a poem "The Little Boy Lost" by William Blake. However, I did it incompletely.
Robert Burns’ 260th birthday - 25th January, 1759
Tonight is Burns Night...All over Scotland, people are celebrating the National Bard’s Birthday, with whisky, neeps (turnips) and haggis, and Burns’ own “Address To The Haggis”, the “Great Chieftain o’ The Puddin’ Race”, will be recited.
I took this shot of Scotland’s national flower, or “Flower of Scotland”, [Onopordum acanthium] in early July, 2018, about 100m down my track - 16 miles from where Burns was born in Alloway, Ayr.
“Hail, Caledonia, name forever dear...!”
‘Prologue’ 1787
Robert Burns
Happy birthday, Rabbie. 💙
South Carrick Hills
SW Scotland
*based on the poem: "lavado cerebral" /brainwash/ recited with it's profound words of wisdom by Alfred Gutierrez. /see english transl./ youtu.be/UelP7KzJQw0</
The set deals with the universal dilemma of what happens to the creative side of artist's brains as it tries to cross over to the irrational, producing images of a world not as yet explored. To return to the real world a "brainwash" is required.
p.s. I have known artists for whom the brainwash did not work and in fact the "surreal" became the real world to them.
This is locally know as the Pirates tower. I ran into a family that live near by and they recited a story about how the home owner that lived in the home at the the top of the tower used to dress up like a pirate and walk the streets and pubs telling people that he has hidden coins in the boards of the spiral staircase that leads to the top, for the kids in the area to find if they explored it well enough. The kids in the area spent a lot of time in that tower. :)
Located at Victoria Beach cove in Laguna beach. It is 3 exposures combined with the "Merge to 32 bit" plugin by HDRSoft.
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365 Day Toy Project
Jack's Lament by Danny Elfman
"...And since I am dead, I can take off my head
To recite Shakespearean quotations
No animal nor man can scream like I can
With the fury of my recitations..."
Stands outside the 1858 Caesar bar. He chats with those that pass by. Reciting lines from The Nightmare Before Christmas movie.
~Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)
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Loneliness is the soul's way of reminding us that we are not alone, but connected to something greater in the city of shadow.
Braken Cave and the Emergence of 20 million Bats
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Hunter recites an Arbor Day program during the Worland Elementary School's Arbor Day Celebration. All third graders then get a tree of their own to plant from the Worland Garden Club.
Is this--they ate each other up.
I must have been around three when my grandmother recited to me the poem "The Duel" by Eugene Field.
My 3 year old mind pondered that over and over for a long time." How did they do that? How could they possibly do that? Did they start on each other's tail? Wouldn't their teeth be left? They couldn't eat each other all up. Something would have to be left"
As far as I know that was my first exercise in abstract reasoning. And today I still love the poem and still wonder "How could they possibly do that?"
This is for my friend Judy whose granddaughter won't be three for a long time to file away for the future.
No doubt I don't need to recite the struggles of the crew riding along the UP donation train over its week on the road, but after stalling, completely lacking a crew and falling a full day behind schedule, countless lubrication stops, a supposed overheating bearing(?), long nights with little rest, and then some, I can only imagine how excited everyone on board this train was to get this day over with.
For my part, I was just glad they'd managed to catch up to their original schedule and I was able to get up there and see the equipment move. Sure, it's all dead-in-tow, but not only have I never actually seen any of this equipment in person, it's not likely to be going outside for many years. It was a no brainer that I had to shoot it - even if there was a lot of other people. A stones toss away from home! No way I'd miss it.
UP3985, UP5511, and the unpictured UP6936, coaches, caboose, and E9B continue on their long and slow journey from Cheyenne to Silvis via the Iowa Interstate, crossing the Iowa River in Iowa City. Lots of Iowa going on today. Frigid air and water made the wait for the train seem so very long, but little did I know just how cold things would get later!
I remembered Thirty Purple Birds as a poem from my childhood, which for some reason was always recited with a broad New York accent "Toity poiple boids". When I Googled it I found out it was also recorded by the Red Hot Chili Peppers (same words).
Thirty purple birds
Sitting on a kerb
A chirping and a burping
And eating dirty worms.
Anyway, back to the bird. This is one of about thirty Violet-backed Starlings that we saw in Ethiopia. This is a male also known as Amethyst or Plum-coloured Starling, and it is one of the most stunningly-coloured birds I have ever seen. They seem to spend most of their time high in trees where it is difficult to appreciate the full beauty of their plumage. They are quite widespread in sub-Saharan Africa but we only found them in numbers at one site in the Rift Valley during our Ethiopian trip.
There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
Jesse Ventura
Brenda Walsh ♡♡♡
I always loved Shannen Doherty, since the days of Beverly Hills 90210 and when she recited in Charmed, and in her other works.
Today she fighting her battle against cancer, i'am near of her! Shannen're strong, strenght!
Forza Shannen♡
One of the phrases we had to recite at school for good vowel sounds! Hubby makes friends with a cow at Lantic Bay in Cornwall Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/RosieSpoonerPhotography
the caption, at the bottom right of the left photo, reads:
"Partinico, September. Ignazio Buttitta recites "Portella delle ginestre" and "Turiddu Carnevale" at Castellaccio, the promontory overlooking Partinico. Among those who listen to him there is also Danilo Dolci, with his son Cielo. Bertrand Russel, La Pira, Abbot Pierre, and Guttuso sent Danilo Dolci messages of solidarity";
in the photo on the right, Danilo Dolci.
(Two original newspaper sheets of the time, preserved by Daphne Phelps, who hosted Danilo Dolci in Taormina; Cuseni House archive).
Danilo Dolci: Verso un mondo nuovo
la didascalia, in basso a destra della foto di sinistra recita:
“Partinico, settembre. Ignazio Buttitta recita "Portella delle ginestre" e "Turiddu Carnevale" al Castellaccio, il promontorio che sovrasta Partinico. Tra coloro che l'ascoltano c'è anche Danilo Dolci, con suo figlio Cielo. Bertrand Russel, La Pira, l'abate Pierre, e Guttuso hanno inviato a Danilo Dolci messaggi di solidarietà”;
nella foto di destra, Danilo Dolci.
(Due fogli di giornale originali dell'epoca, conservati da Daphne Phelps, che ospitò a Taormina Danilo Dolci; archivio Casa Cuseni).
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A story of Sicily: the Sicilian Gandhi (but he was not Sicilian ...).
This photographic story is connected, at least in part, with the previous one, whose link is represented by the nephew of the painter Robert Kitson, Miss Daphne Phelps: in life she was a psychiatric social worker (she collaborated with Anna Freud, daughter by Sigmund Freud), on the death of his uncle in 1948 he moved to Sicily to take care of Casa Cuseni, having inherited it: initially he wanted to sell it and then return to England, instead he ended up falling in love with Taormina and Sicily, deciding to stay there for the rest of his life. Daphne ran Casa Cuseni welcoming paying guests, there are many illustrious names of artists, writers, well-known personalities who have stayed there: Danilo Dolci was one of these guests, and it is precisely about him that I wish to speak. He was born in 1924 in Sesana (Trieste), after a somewhat eventful life, in 1952 he moved to Trappeto (between Palermo and Trapani), a country among the poorest and most disadvantaged in Italy: that same year the first of numerous fasts, going to bed and fasting in the bed of a child who died of malnutrition, a protest that will end only when the authorities undertake to build a sewer. Danilo Dolci continues with numerous initiatives, from the publication of a book ("Banditi a Partinico", which makes public opinion aware of the poor living conditions of western Sicily, to this book and many others will follow), to the "strike at reverses ”, when the workers went on strike, hundreds of unemployed began to work to reactivate an abandoned municipal road, an initiative that was then stopped by the police; Dolci also initiates an activity of denunciation of the mafia phenomenon and its relations with politics. There are numerous certificates of esteem and solidarity that he receives from important personalities from Italy and abroad, but despite this, for others Danilo Dolci is a dangerous subversive, to be hindered, denigrated, locked up in prison. Yet Dolci does not pose as a guru, boss, or teacher, his working method is based on the conviction that change is based on the involvement and direct participation of those concerned, his idea of progress enhances local culture and skills; he tries, working closely with the people and the most disadvantaged and oppressed groups of western Sicily, to free the dormant creativity in every person, calling this research "maieutic", a term coming from philosophy, precisely from Socratic maieutics: it is "the 'art of the midwife ", every educational act is to bring to light all the inner potentialities of the one who wants to learn, like a mother who wants to give birth to her own child from her womb, so no to notions imparted a priori, yes to help the student to bring their knowledge to light, using dialogue as a tool; however, Socratic maieutics is unidirectional, while in Danilo Dolci's "reciprocal maieutics", knowledge comes out of experience and its sharing, therefore it presupposes the reciprocity of communication. During meetings with farmers and fishermen, the idea was born to build the dam on the Jato River, which is important for the economic development of the area, but also to remove a powerful weapon in the hands of the mafia, an instrument of power which controlled the few available water resources; however the request for "water for all" will be heavily hindered, popular mobilizations and long fasts will be necessary to finally see the project realized: now the dam exists, and others have been built, thus modifying the lives of thousands of people, with the development of numerous companies and cooperatives. Among the many activities of Dolci, thanks to the contribution of international experts, the experience of the Mirto Educational Center, attended by hundreds of children, should be mentioned. Returning to Daphne Phelps and Casa Cuseni, here is a lithograph by Tono Zancanaro, dedicated to the birth of one of Danilo Dolci's daughters, but, among the most important, there is a correspondence between the pacifist philosopher Bertrand Russel and Daphne Phelps, in which the English thinker invited Robert Kitson's niece to participate in the gatherings of progressive intellectuals and literary and scientific personalities of the time, among them, besides Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre and Carlo Levi, there was Danilo Dolci, sociologist, educator, still recognized today as one of the most important figures of nonviolence worldwide.
post Scriptum:
- the images with Danilo Dolci come from the Casa Cuseni archive: they are cuttings from original periodicals, often full pages, from English newspapers, carefully preserved by Miss Daphne Phelp; these images were also taken by photographing some pages of James McNeish's book, "Fire under the ashes - The life of Danilo Dolci";
- the photographs taken in various countries of Sicily, are prior to the covid-19 pandemic;
- thanks to the surgeon colleague dr. Franco Spadaro and his kind wife, Mrs. Mimma Cundari, owners of Casa Cuseni (declared in 1998, Italian National Monument), for their hospitality and availability, having made the Danilo Dolci archive available to me.
Una storia di Sicilia: il Gandhi siciliano (ma siciliano non era…).
Questo racconto fotografico, è connesso, almeno in parte, con quello precedente, il cui anello di congiunzione è rappresentato dalla nipote del pittore Robert Kitson, la signorina Daphne Phelps: lei nella vita era una assistente sociale psichiatrica (lei collaborava con Anna Freud, figlia di Sigmund Freud), alla morte dello zio nel 1948 si trasferì in Sicilia per occuparsi di Casa Cuseni, avendola ereditata: inizialmente la voleva vendere per poi ritornarsene in Inghilterra, invece finì con l’innamorarsi di Taormina e della Sicilia, decidendo di restarvi per il resto della sua vita. Daphne gestiva Casa Cuseni accogliendo ospiti paganti, numerosi sono i nomi illustri di artisti, scrittori, note personalità che vi hanno alloggiato: Danilo Dolci è stato uno di questi ospiti, ed è proprio di lui che desidero parlare. Egli nasce nel 1924 a Sesana (Trieste), dopo una vita un po’ movimentata, nel 1952 si trasferisce a Trappeto (tra Palermo e Trapani), un paese tra i più poveri e disagiati d’Italia: quello stesso anno inizia il primo di numerosi digiuni, coricandosi e digiunando nel letto di un bimbo morto per denutrizione, protesta che terminerà solo quando le autorità si impegneranno a costruire una fogna. Danilo Dolci prosegue con numerose iniziative, dalla pubblicazione di un libro (“Banditi a Partinico”, che mette a conoscenza dell’opinione pubblica delle misere condizioni di vita della Sicilia occidentale, a questo libro poi ne seguiranno molti altri), allo “sciopero alla rovescia”, quando i lavoratori fecero sciopero, centinaia di disoccupati si misero a lavorare per riattivare una strada comunale abbandonata, iniziativa però poi fermata dalla polizia; Dolci avvia anche una attività di denuncia del fenomeno mafioso e dei suoi rapporti con la politica. Numerosi sono gli attestati di stima e solidarietà che egli riceve da importanti personalità provenienti dall’Italia e dall’estero, ma nonostante ciò per altri Danilo Dolci è un pericoloso sovversivo, da ostacolare, denigrare, chiudere in prigione. Eppure Dolci non si atteggia né a santone, capo, od un maestro, il suo metodo di lavoro è basato sulla convinzione che il cambiamento è basato sul coinvolgimento e diretta partecipazione degli interessati, la sua idea di progresso valorizza la cultura e le competenze locali; egli cerca, lavorando a stretto contatto con la gente e le fasce più disagiate ed oppresse della Sicilia occidentale, di liberare la creatività sopita in ogni persona, chiamando tale ricerca “maieutica”, termine proveniente dalla filosofia, precisamente dalla maieutica socratica: è “l’arte della levatrice”, ogni atto educativo è far venire alla luce tutte le potenzialità interiori di colui che vuole imparare, al pari di una madre che vuol far nascere la propria creatura dal suo grembo, quindi no a nozioni impartite a priori, si ad aiutare lo studente a portare alla luce la propria conoscenza, usando il dialogo come strumento; però, la maieutica socratica è unidirezionale, mentre nella “maieutica reciproca” di Danilo Dolci, la conoscenza viene fuori dall’esperienza e dalla sua condivisione, quindi presuppone la reciprocità della comunicazione. Nel corso di riunioni con contadini e pescatori, nasce l’idea di costruire la diga sul fiume Jato, importante per lo sviluppo economico della zona, ma anche togliere un’arma potente in mano alla mafia, che faceva del controllo delle poche risorse idriche disponibili uno strumento di potere, però la richiesta di “acqua per tutti” verrà pesantemente ostacolata, saranno necessarie le mobilitazioni popolari, lunghi digiuni, per vedere infine realizzato il progetto: ora la diga esiste, ed altre sono state poi realizzate, modificando in tal modo la vita di migliaia di persone, con lo svilupparsi di numerose aziende e cooperative. Da menzionare, tra le tante attività di Dolci, grazie al contributo di esperti internazionali, l’esperienza del Centro Educativo di Mirto, frequentato da centinaia di bambini. Ritornando a Daphne Phelps e Casa Cuseni, qui è presente una litografia di Tono Zancanaro, dedicata alla nascita di una delle figlie di Danilo Dolci, ma, cosa tra le più importanti, esiste un carteggio tra il filosofo pacifista Bertrand Russel e Daphne Phelps, nel quale il pensatore inglese invitava la nipote di Robert Kitson a partecipare ai raduni di intellettuali progressisti e personalità letterarie e scientifiche dell’epoca, tra di loro, oltre Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre e Carlo Levi, c’era Danilo Dolci, sociologo, educatore, ancora oggi riconosciuto tra le figure di massimo rilievo della nonviolenza a livello mondiale.
post scriptum:
- le immagini con Danilo Dolci provengono dall'archivio di Casa Cuseni: sono ritagli di giornali originali dell'epoca, spesso pagine intere, provenienti da quotidiani inglesi, accuratamente conservati dalla signorina Daphne Phelp; tali immagini sono state realizzate fotografando anche alcune pagine del libro di James McNeish, "Fire under the ashes - The life of Danilo Dolci";
- le fotografie realizzate in diversi paesi della Sicilia, sono antecedenti alla pandemia da covid-19;
- si ringrazia il collega chirurgo dott. Franco Spadaro e la sua gentile consorte, signora Mimma Cundari, proprietari di Casa Cuseni (dichiarata nel 1998, Monumento Nazionale Italiano), per la loro ospitalità e disponibilità, avendo messo a mia disposizione l'archivio relativo a Danilo Dolci.
I've often considered butterflies in flight as the holy grail of wildlife photography that I dreamed about getting but I never thought I'd get one.
I saw this chap hovering and thought "this is my moment"
I quickly dialled into manual and said to myself out loud "shutter speed controls ambient; aperture controls flash" reciting the speedliters handbook.
A few shots later; nailed it.
Awesome; so happy.
location : Nanzenji Temple Tenjyuan ,Kyoto city ,Kyoto Prefecture,Japan
南禅寺 天授庵 南北朝時代 池泉回遊式庭園 書院南庭
Tenjyuan Garden on southern side of Shoin
Tenjyuan :
Tenjyuan is one of the most historically important temple of the Nanzenji. It was built as a dedication of the founder of the Nanzenji , Daiminkokushi Mukanfumon .
In 1267 the Emperpor Kameyama,enchanted with the natural beauty of the spot,elected a villa on the site where where the Nanzenji Temple now stands. Around 1288 the emperor was vexed by the appearance of a ghost and asked for help from Daiminkokushi ,the third Chief Priest of the Tofukuji Temple.
The priest rid Emperor Kameyama of the gost by merely performing Zazen meditations without reciting a single sutra.
The emperor was deeply moved by this demonstration of the priest's virtue and subsequently became became his disciple,giving himself the name Hoo("Great Priest").He later converted his villa into zen temple and dedicated it to Daiminkokushi.These events took place in Hoo's later years ; the priest died before the coversation of the villa was complete.It was left for a priest named Kiansoen,the successor of Daiminkokushi.to finish the work and inaugurate the zen temple. For this reason little credit for the task is given to Daiminkokushi himself.In 1336 Kokakushiren,the 15th chief priest of Nanzen Ji Temple,asked the retired Emperor Kogon for permission to construct a building commemorating the founding of the temple by Daiminkokushi.Construction on the building was completed in the following year(1337),hence the opening of the Tenjyuan.
Tenjyuan,however ,was destroyed in the Nanzenji conflagration of 1447 .Nor was the temple spared destraction by fire during the Onin War ( 1467-1477). More then 130 years passed before the temple was finally reconstructed.
Many of the temples destroyed by wars were reconstructed in the last quarter of the 16th century,when Japan enjoyed a period of political stability. The priests of Nanzenji agreed that the Tenjyuan be reconstructed by one of the most famous Zen priests of Kyoto,Genporeisan.He appointed Ungakureikei chief priest of the Tenjyuan ,and asked the daimyo Hosokawa Yusei to finance the enterprise.Thanks to generous contribution of Hosokawa,the reconstruction of the Main Hall,the Main Gate,and the old study was completed in August ,1602.These are the Tenjyuan buildings that stand today.
The garden consists of the front ,or eastern,garden of the Main Hall, and the southern garden near the Study.
***The eastern garden is a rock garden. A geometrically designed stone footpath embedded in white sand and moss connects the Main Hall with the Maingate. This footpath was made 1338 after the original construction of the Tenjyuan.
The other ,shorter stone footpath leading to Yusai's mausoleum was made after Yusai's death in1610.***
The layout of the southern garden clearly illustrates the characteristics of late 14th century landscaping.The two central islands in particular epitomize this style. A long penninsula extending from the study and a smaller penninsula extending from the other side meet to form a curling clasp,creating an eastern and western pond.The shorelines of the two ponds so divided are thus varied.
The eastern pond is smaller than the other and has a slopping bank.In addition to this landscaping technique,the arrangement of rocks near the waterfall indicates that the garden was made around the time of the construction of the Tenjyuan in 1337.
- Tenjyuan
This temple has an explicit no-tripod policy, so tripods, including monopods, are usually prohibited here.
My Thoughts my dreams my fears
Ashamed to disappointed eyes
When facing what resides inside
Please recite them back to me
But rearrange them not
Leave all the other things unturned
They are mine to conquer mine to learn.
-©k sleepinsidemysoul.tumblr.com/post/160609713843#notes
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Saint Dominic HENARES MINH (XUÂN)
Dominican Bishop
(1765-1838)
* Prayer and Dream.
“Most gentle Jesus and father of my heart, through the Holy Passion and the intercession and work of Our Lady, please show compassion to my uncle, Bishop Dominic. Please keep him from evils, increase his love of God, and help him loyally serve God forever. And if needed to honor and glorify God’s name, give him the grace to shed blood and to sacrifice his life for God’s love to give witness to faith. Amen.”[1] (http://www.gpnt.net/diendan/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=1651#_ftn1)
That was a prayer that Bishop Henares Minh had composed from the evangelization land of Vietnam for his five-year-old niece who recited it daily even though she knew very little about her uncle. When asked about her bishop uncle, she could only reply: “My uncle’s name is Dominic, of the Dominican Order. He is evangelizing at a far, very far place where people are killing Christians.” And God had answered the prayers of the uncle and niece from those distant places.
* Answering the Call of Evangelization.
Dominic Henares Minh was born on 12/19/1765 in the village of Baoena of the diocese of Cordoba, Spain. A few years later his family relocated to Granada where he grew up and attended schools. Inherited the spirituality from his mother, Henares developed into a virtuous person and became a model that other parents used to show their children. At 16, Henares joined the Dominican Order in Granada, but did not receive the religious habits until 8/30/1783 at Guadix monastery. The following year, he professed solemn vows and started philosophy study. Henares was an outstanding student since the very first semester, so when he asked his superiors at the end of the year to let him transfer to the Holy Rosary Province to train for missionary work in Vietnam, they let him go with reluctance. Henares recognized God’s call through urgent exhortation of Bishop Obelar Khâm, bishop of the vicariate of East Tonkin (North), who had not received any missionary in 15 years.
Together with a group of young religious led by the religious Delgado, Henares embarked on a journey to the Philippines. Hence the lives of Delgado and Henares were bound together. After more than a year traversing the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, on 7/9/1786 the group docked at Manila where Henares continued his theology formation while teaching Literature at Santo Tomas. On 9/20/1789 Henares was ordained a priest and sent to North Vietnam. When his ship reached Macao, Fr. Henares again linked up with Fr. Delgado who had started his journey a year earlier without reaching Vietnam. Nevertheless, together with two other missionaries, Fr. Vidal and Fr. Gatillepa, on 10/29/1790 the four missionaries arrived at the vicariate of East Tonkin where remained only three old missionaries.
Fr. Henares, at 25, took on the Vietnamese name Minh and quickly learned the Vietnamese language. After 6 months in Vietnam, he was given responsibility of directing Tiên Chu Seminary where for many years he taught Latin and helped seminarians grow in virtues. In 1798, amidst King Cảnh Thịnh’s persecution, he was named the superior of the Dominican Order in Vietnam. The following year, after Bishop Alonzo Phê passed away and succeeded by Bishop Delgado Y, Fr. Henares Minh was named vicar of the diocese. On 9/91800 Pope Pius VII assigned him titular bishop of Fez and Coadjutor bishop assisting Bishop Delgado Y. However, due to difficult conditions in Vietnam, the apostolic letter of appointment did not reach Vietnam until two years later.
* The Benevolent Shepherd.
On 1/9/1803 was a day of festivity of the entire vicariate of East Tonkin. Foreign missionaries, more than 30 Vietnamese priests, and tens of thousands of lay Catholics poured into Phú Nhai to participate in the consecration of the Coadjutor bishop Henares Minh, commencing a 20-year-long period of peace. Together the two bishops, Delgado Y and Henares Minh, also called the “twin” by some, who had the same dreams, trained at the same institution, and arrived in Vietnam at the same time... began to lead the diocese to its most prosperous period. They took turn going to the smallest parish; Bishop Henares Minh often chose to visit the more remote parishes, especially those in the city of Kinh Bắc, an isolated and primitive place where Bishop Alonzo Phê had succumbed to malaria.
Fr. Hermosilla Vọng had written about Bishop Henares Minh as followed:
“He was a leader with an austere live, a dedicated shepherd who was never tired of salvation of souls, and a person in thirst of martyrdom. He was always ready to go wherever his service was needed even in the dark of night. His piety was marvelous as shown in his nonstop meditations and his frequent researches on the patriarchs of the Church. He led the live of poverty as prescribed in the Gospels, and like a gentle father, he was generous to the most destitute. Those were the main virtues that he wanted to demonstrate.”
With humility and charity, Bishop Henares Minh was austere with himself but generous to others. He often made his own clothes and mended old ones to give to the poor. Even with the limited medical knowledge, he was the benefactor of many sick persons. He always carried a box of medicine with him wherever he went to give to the sick. At times a person with an incurable illness was cured, the bishop‘s prayers and blessing was more often credited than medicine.
* If The Time Was Not Right...
The bishop’s life was once saved by his own sack of charitable medicine. He was visiting the community of Thượng Hộ in the city of Sơn Nam Hạ when he was kidnapped in the thick of night by a gang of robbers who were trying to extract ransom money. As they took the bishop into the forest, the person holding the box of medicine tripped and fell spilling the contents of the box, including some metallic tools that reflected light in the night. As the robbers fought over twinkling metals that they mistook for gold pieces, the bishop sneaked away and hid in a dense brush nearby until dawn when the robbers ran away as parishioners sounded alerts and went searching for him.
The governor of Hà Nội, Mr. Nguyễn Văn Thành, wanted to set up a public discussion on religions. Bishop Henares Minh together with Bishop Longer Gia of the vicariate of West Tonkin agreed to be panelists with the topic: “No person can force practices of superstition on Catholics.” However, the governor did not agree with that subject of discussion, the discussion was scuttled, causing Bishop Henares Minh to say: “As long as there is a lack of light from Heaven, any amount of discussions would be futile.”
A few years after King Minh Mạng was enthroned, many rebellions were started in the North: Lê Duy Lương, Nùng Văn Vân..., and particularly in the provinces of Nam Định and Hải Dương, Phan Bá Vành. In general, Northerners still longed for the Lê dynasty not the Nguyễn, even King Gia Long had to use the deception of supporting the Lê to unify the country. At the time, the influence of the Phan Bá Vành insurgency was spreading so fast that in 1826 King Minh Mạng had to send Viceroy Lê Văn Duyệt and Nguyễn Công Trứ to crush the rebellion. The Phan Bá Vành insurgents retreated to the village of Trà Lũ where they held on for three months until they were all captured. This victory had the contributions of more than 300 Catholics, however, among those arrested there were also some Catholics, and they testified that they knew Bishop Henares Minh, 10 Vietnamese religious priests; Henceforth, the bishop was blacklisted by the king.
On 5/13/1827 the governor of Nam Định led 800 soldiers along with battle elephants to Trà Lũ to arrest the bishop, but the bishop was able to escape. Even though he really desired to spill his blood to bear witness to God’s love, the bishop often confided that martyrdom was a great honor which nobody should be careless with outside God’s will. Following the raid was 10 years of service, often more perilous and secret, by the bishop; but in general, the diocese of East Tonkin was relatively calm until the discovery on April of 1838 of the six letters of Fr. Viên addressed to the two bishops and four priests made their presence known to the king. The King censured Governor Trịnh Quang Khanh severely and ordered a reinforcement of 2000 soldiers from the royal capital in a campaign to arrest all the clerics. Bishop Henares Minh and the catechist Chiểu had to leave Tiên Chu village to take refuge in Kiên Lao, close to the hiding place of Bishop Delgado Y and two other missionaries. On May 28, 1838, when Bishop Delgado Y was arrested, Bishop Henares Minh was hiding in Mrs. Tư’s home pretending to deshell rice on a grinder; each time soldiers walked past, Mrs. Tư shielded the bishop’s face with a screen.
* The Sentenced Must Be Revised.
That night, Bishop Henares Minh left Mrs. Tư’s home for the village of Trung Thành, then on to Quần Anh and finally Xương Điền. Noticing that royal soldiers were still following them, the bishop and the catechist Chiểu boarded a boat and sailed for the sea. A pagan fisherman told other Christians: “Look at that boat sailing against the wind, I think that a missionary is aimlessly fleeing the persecution. You try to bring him here, I will arrange sanctuary and hide him.” Trusting the fisherman, Christians sailed out to convince the bishop to come ashore. Unfortunately, the deceitful fisherman then went to the authorities that came to arrest the bishop and the catechist Chiểu at his house.
The mandarin of Xuân Trường prefecture treated the bishop with respect, but fearful of the king, the mandarin had a cage built and sent him to the provincial capital of Nam Định on June 11, 1838. Many times at the governor’s residence, the two cages holding Bishop Henares Ming and Bishop Y was placed next to each other and the two were able to converse in Spanish. Nobody knew what the two were talking about, but the consolation they felt had to be overwhelming because of the circumstance and their friendship. Close to half a century working side-by-side serving Christians, they were now next to each other on their road to Heaven. The joy on their faces was evident.
When the justice mandarin demanded his signature on the sentence, Bishop Henares Minh requested his sentence read aloud before he signed. When he heard the words “perverse religion,” he interrupted: “I request that Your Honor change those words to the faith of God of Heaven and Earth.” The mandarin agreed. Then as the reading came to: “... defraud naive people,” the bishop again interrupted: “Not true, we do not defraud anyone. We came here only to preach a just religion.” The bishop refused to sign until his objections were corrected. The death sentence was sent to the royal court for approval. On June 25, 1838, the sentence came back to Nam Định with the royal approval and the bishop was scheduled to be executed the following day.
* The Last Witness.
A number of Catholic soldiers, who had practiced their faith in secret, used bribery to have the honor to carry the bishop’s cage. Before departing for the place of execution, many soldiers, who due to weakness had trampled on the cross, knelt before the cage asking the bishop to pray and forgive them. The bishop counseled and helped them preparing their contrition. On the road to the execution site, the cheerful Bishop Henares Minh quietly prayed in the cage while blessing the crowd grieving for him by the sides of the road. Following the cage was the catechist Chiểu carrying a yoke and five soldiers who refused to walk over the cross. However, half way to execution site, the five soldiers were taken back to jail; among them were three men, Augustine Huy, Nicholas Thể and Dominic Đạt were executed at a later date[2] (http://www.gpnt.net/diendan/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=1651#_ftn2).
At the place of execution, wishing to witness the martyrdom of his beloved disciple, the catechist Francis Chiểu, Bishop Henares Minh asked the mandarin to execute the catechist first. As agreed to by the commanding mandarin, the executioner cut the catechist’s head and handed it to the bishop who received the head then looked toward the heaven to pray. As his turn came, he bowed his head allowing the executioner an easy cut. It was June 26, 1838, the day God called Bishop Henares Minh home to receive the palm of martyrdom ending his 73 years on earth with 18 years serving in Vietnam and 38 years as bishop.
The bishop’s remains was buried at the execution site then brought back to Lục Thuỷ parish a month later. The bishop’s head was hung at the city gate for three days then thrown into Nị Hoàng River; it was found a few days later by a fisherman and buried together with the body. After the persecution ended, his relics were moved to the chancery of Bùi Chu.
Pope Leo XIII beatified Bishop Henares Minh on May 27, 1900
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