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Mercedes, Texas 78570 Wednesday, July 01, 2001
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Dear Mercedes,
— Notre Dame Cathedral
at Bayeux —
The ride back to Bayeux was a
vacant one. Visiting the American
Cemetery is one of those things that
will be a long time in clearing. The
amount paid, what it came to, how it
ended for so many people, the effects
on so many families.
It is a beautiful place, a sad place,
an eloquently silent place.
There could probably not be a
better, more fitting way to let
Normandy settle than wandering in
an old cathedral. I had intended to
see it, had seen it on the way out, and
was now needing it.
The cathedral is the central
feature ofBayeux. By my reckoning it
is about three city blocks long and is
five stories high. It is massive by our
standards, though.not massive as
compared to the Notre Dame in Paris.
I do not know when it was built
and at the time, didn’t really care.
After a certain age, antiquity seems
to run together for me, the casually
informed. Needless to say, it is very
old. I had to walk halfway around it
to find the entrance.
The grounds are well kept,
without being too nice to walk on and
sniff the flowers in the beds and feel
the shrubs. Finally the doors: they are
massive by anyone’s gauging, but
glorious emptiness. I shudder at the cathedral seemed to comn jnd.
use of that overworked word, but ’ I have no idea how loi J I stayed
glorious it was. There was a match of in there. I wandered down some stairs
some kind with the emptiness that was to a sarcophagus and twitched a bit
with me from the cemetery. I was alone when a remote sensing switch turned
and wanted to be alone. on a low lamp for me. I walked back
The stone work echoed all sound, up straightaway, noting that in that
and made the walking steps quiet basement it was a good ten degrees
ones. From way up near the domes, cooler than the main floor level,
two of them, came medieval sounding By now the afternoon sun had
plainsong, sung by female voices. It slanted over and the light came in
floated among the walls and columns, straight beams, several feet thick,
finding its own way, across the top of the old room. It
The light on the columns filtered seemed to change the pitch of the
and stained through the leaded glass, music, which sounded like a vesper^
wrapped the columns in their own hymns I had heard once upon a time,
colors. Here a pastel green, next a mild in a music appreciation class, sacred
red, there, a thin purple, and all around music for the end of a day.
the small but still-heard feminine It was time to leave. I placed some
voices of a choir from somewhere in money in the courtesy collection box
time. and eased out.
Along the sides of the main hall I stood under an archway of the
were little alcoves dedicated to one heavy doors that were rotting at the
saint or another, each fenced off and bottom and looked up.
having its own little seating area and The stone carvings of people
altar. They struck me as rest places above the lintels all had the heads
for anyone trying to see the whole missing. Some were knocked off,
cathedral but who had become some were neatly removed, but all
footsore, were gone.
I sat in several of them, letting the I searched the pamphlet I’d picked
day and things seen work themselves up inside for the explanation. At some
out. I did note that one of the shrines point in the history of that church, a
was to St. Anthony of Padua, the 1 group in power thought it sacrilege
patron saint of my own, adopted San
Antonio.
The statue of St. Anthony
beginning to rot along the bottom. . depicted a nice looking man, gentle
I went in to a cool and shadowed in his demeanor. The tiles on the floor
light coming in from the high, third ' in his alcove were well worn, even
story stained glass windows. The
ceiling was four stories up and the
main sanctuary must have been two
hundred feet by one hundred fifty
feet. It created a huge, high openness
enclosed in old stonework walls and
old glass.
I went in to what came to me as a
scooped out, from who-knows-how-
many millions of feet passing in and
out.
All the while the singing
continued without becoming
repetitious. A few people wandered
in and around, just as I was doing,
each observing a silence that the
to have idols on view and took the
heads off.
Several of the people sculpted
were riding donkeys. The heads of
the donkeys were left on.
The door opened, barely, to let
some people out of the church. The
vespers music followed them out. I
heard it all the way down the block, in
the cool air from the English Channel
as I walked on under the bluest sky I
have ever seen.
oQue te vaya bien, eh?
Fleet
UPPER GRADES’ TOP READERS - Third and fourth
graders shown here, who attended Kennedy
Elementary School last school year, were
recognized as “Top Readers” in the Accelerated
Reader Program for the 2000-01 school year.
Shown above are third grade honorees and they
include, in front from left, Joshua Palomo, Jesus
Trejo, Millicent Olivarez and Rolando Garza. In
back, in same order, are Librarian Dahlia de la
Cerda, Chris Lopez, Omar Pedraza, Valeria
Sandoval, Ignacio Parra and Monica Limon. Not
shown is Dalila Zuniga. Photo below shows fourth
grade honorees and they are, in front, Joshua
Alaniz, Carlos Cardenas, Bryan Almaraz, Analiza
Rodriguez and Lilliana Palomo. In back are Mrs.
de la Cerda, Christopher M. Trevino, Amanda
Trevino, Victoria I. Garza, David Corral and Crystal
Jolene Ramirez.
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