![]() ![]() Andrew Kim Taegon as an important figure in your life. In your book “ Just as lightning comes from the East” (“Come la folgore viene da Oriente,” Edizioni San Paolo, 2023) you talk about St. ![]() This is a great gift that encourages and fills the heart with joy. Andrew Kim, allows the faithful of the Korean Church to feel like a living part of the catholicity of the Church, to feel a deeper closeness and communion with the Church of Rome and with the Chair of Peter. The occasion, besides recalling the importance of the figure of St. Peter’s Basilica signify for Korean Catholics?Ĭardinal You Heung-sik: As one can imagine, it is a moment of great joy for the Korean people and in particular for the Catholics. What does the installation of the statue of St. The cardinal spoke to I.MEDIA about how this saint can help the Catholic Church “rediscover the enthusiasm of proclaiming the Gospel,” particularly in the West. This great figure of Asian Catholicism played an important role in the conversion and priestly vocation of Korean Cardinal Lazarus You Heung-sik, prefect of the Dicastery for the Clergy. Peter’s Basilica, on his feast day and anniversary of his martyrdom. Andrew Kim Taegon (1821-1846) will be unveiled in one of the niches of St. Cardinal Lazarus You Heung-sik talks about this saint's witness. Peter's Basilica will be getting a new statue of the Korean martyr, St. HowStuffWorks may earn a small commission from affiliate links in this article.St. Robert Johnson song's "Me and Devil Blues" might be more about such an African diasporic trickster figure than the Christian devil," Hoermann says. "Even in the blues, the crossroads play a large role. Whether or not the mysterious dark figure in Johnson's song "Me and the Devil Blues" really is Papa Legba, the story shows how the image of Papa Legba has spread beyond Haiti to the Black diaspora around the world. The famous legend touts that Johnson made a deal with a dark figure on a dark crossroads in the American South - perhaps with the Satanic devil - but due to his practice of Vodou, it's possible that Johnson went to the crossroads in search of answers and met with Papa Legba instead. Hyatt's book " Hoodoo, Conjuration, Witchcraft, Rootwork," the famous blues musician of the 1930s, Robert Johnson, was a practitioner of Vodou. ![]() As West African slaves and free Black individuals fled revolution in the French Caribbean, Vodou became integrated into local Catholicism in Louisiana.ĭue to his prominent role as the keeper of the crossroads, Papa Legba has appeared in other cultural contexts. The practice of Vodou in Louisiana also has its origins in Haitian Vodou. Siuda, also known as Mambo Chita Tann, is a priestess or "mambo" of Haitian Vodou and author of the booklet " Legba." In the U.S., it tends to be concentrated only in places where Haitians live in diaspora, such as Miami, New York City and Boston," Tamara L. He says, "Often Vodun ceremonies were outlawed under the slave regime" though he also adds that the exact impact of Vodou in the Haitian Revolution is somewhat disputed.Īs the Haitian diaspora expanded across the globe, so, too, did Vodou among the Black diaspora in the U.S. Raphael Hoermann is a lecturer in English literature at England's University of Central Lancashire who studies the Haitian Revolution and North and Black Atlantic narratives of slavery. Henning Christoph /ullstein bild/Getty Images ![]()
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