Confession Of A Tortured Convent

Posted on May 5, 2014 Posted in Blog, Colombia, CultureTagged convent, La Violencia, Religion, Rojas PinillaLeave a comment

I am 100 years old this year. 100 years… Can you believe I’ve remained intact through this brutal history? Can you believe they still come to live inside of me? I know what I look like on the outside. I look like I used to. I look like I always have. And that’s what so many of them remember me for.

But that’s not who I am…

A building called Calle del Sol in Bogotá’s Candelaria neighborhood was constructed in 1914 and destined to be a convent. But after being abandoned by the nuns that built it, and later seized by a Colombian Dictator’s regime, the building changed from a place of good to a place of evil. Nowadays, its residents say there are ghosts. Continue reading on Beacon…

This is Heaven. This is Hell.

Posted on April 20, 2014April 26, 2014 Posted in Blog, Colombia, CultureTagged Catholicism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Holy Week, Religion, Semana SantaLeave a comment

Colombian journalist and novelist Gabriel García Márquez was 87 years old when he died on April 17th, on the Thursday of Holy Week in 2014. Gabriel García Márquez wrote in One Hundred Years of Solitude, “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

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