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Taller Branding Jueves 24 de Agosto

Fuegos de la Plaza de Parita 2016 Tuna de Tambores

Fundación de Parita, Distrito de Parita, Provincia de Herrera, 18 de Agosto.

Con más de 8.000 habitantes y un legado colonial histórico importante, el pueblo de Parita "sigue siendo un pueblo colonial que capta la atención de turistas nacionales e internacionales".

Parita es el asentamiento hispano indígena más antiguo de la región de Azuero, ya que fue fundado en 1558 a raíz de la supresión de la encomienda indiana de la Alcaldía Mayor de Natá decretada por la Corona Española el 21 de marzo de 1551. Entre quienes la fundaron, figuran el Gobernador Juan Ruiz de Monjaraz y el fraile dominico Pedro de Santa María. A principio llamada Tacita De Oro por sus grandes yacimientos de ese mineral, luego Santa Elena, hasta llegar al nombre de Parita gracias al cacique París.

Los pariteños celebran el 18 de agosto como el día de fundación del distrito, aunque no existe documentación que afirme el día exacto de la fundación de Santa Elena, nombre con que se conoció originalmente este pueblo.

Los pariteños se nutren de un pasado cultural pletórico de riquezas étnicas y religiosas, de costumbres que le confieren personalidad propia preservando así muchos hábitos, que con el transcurrir del tiempo no han perdido.

Parita se encuentra localizada en la Región Central de la República de Panamá, integrada por las provincias de Coclé, Veraguas, Los Santos y Herrera. Ésta la componen siete distritos: Santa María, Ocú, Las Minas, Los Pozos, Pesé, Chitré y Parita.

Limita al Norte con el distrito de Santa María y el de Aguadulce (provincia de Coclé); al Sur con el Distrito de Pesé; al Este con el de Chitré y el Golfo de Panamá y al oeste con el de Ocú.
Tiene una superficie de 364.1 km² cuadrados (Parita 113.6 km²; Cabuya 62.9 km², Los Castillos 24.4 km², Llano de la Cruz 10.3 km²; París 76.7 km²; Portobelillo 29.7 km²; Potuga 46.5). Geométricamente tiene la forma de un pentágono convexo.

Su desarrollo latitudinal máximo tiene una amplitud de 18 km y es la proyección perpendicular del punto extremo norte. En tanto su desarrollo longitudinal hacia el Este, del punto extremo oeste, cual tiene una amplitud de 27.1 km.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distrito_de_Parita

Helena, Empress and Widow. 19 August 330

Helena (or Helen) was born about 255, and married to the Roman general Constantius Chlorus, who became emperor of Britain, Gaul, and Spain when Diocletian divided the Empire. In 274 she bore him a son, Constantine, but in 292 he divorced her in order to cement a political alliance by another marriage. Most historians say that she was born in Drepanum (now Helenopolis) in Asia Minor; but an old tradition asserts that she was born in Britain, in Colchester (51:54 N 0:54 E), and was the daughter of the chieftain Cole, remembered today as Old King Cole. If so, she may have been a Christian from birth, since Christianity was well established in that region. In 306, after the death of Constantius, the army at York (53:58 N 1:05 W) proclaimed Constantine emperor in his father's place, and by 312 he was master of the Western Empire and issued an Edict of Toleration that made the practice of Christianity legal for the first time in over 200 years. Helena worked enthusiastically to promote Christianity, and eventually went to the Holy Land, where she spent large sums on the relief of the poor and on building churches on sacred sites. She is particularly associated with the discovery at Jerusalem (31:47 N 35:13 E), near the probable site of Calvary, of a wooden cross that was accepted as the actual cross on which Jesus was crucified. (The earliest accounts of this discovery, however, do not mention her.)
At least two prominent English novelists have written about her. Evelyn Waugh wrote a novel called Helena, and Dorothy L Sayers wrote a play called The Emperor Constantine for the 2000th anniversary of the founding of the city of Colchester. I have not read the former, but can recommend the latter as interesting and informative, both historically and theologically.

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William Porcher Dubose, Priest and Theologian. 18 August 1918.

William Porcher DuBose is a serious candidate for the title of "greatest theologian that the Episcopal Church in the USA has produced." He was born in South Carolina in 1836, and attended the Military College of South Carolina (now the Citadel) in Charleston (32:48 N 79:58 W), and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (38:02 N 78:29 W). He served as a chaplain in the Confederate Army, and after the War of 1861-1865 served as a parish priest. In 1871 he became a professor at the University of the South (an Episcopal institution) in Sewanee, Tennessee, became Dean of the School of Theology in 1894, retired in 1908, and died in 1918.

He was fluent in Greek, and well-read both in Greek philosophy and in the early Christian fathers. Among his numerous books, the best known are The Soteriology of The New Testament, The Gospel in The Gospels, and The Reason of Life. (Soter is the Greek word for "Savior", and soteriology is the branch of theology that deals with such questions as, "What does it mean to say that Christ saves us?" "How does his death and resurrection do us any good?" "How are the benefits of Christ's work applied to the individual?" and so on.) A quote from one of his articles follows:

God has placed forever before our eyes, not the image but the very Person of the Spiritual Man. We have not to ascend into Heaven to bring Him down, nor to descend into the abyss to bring Him up, for He is with us, and near us, and in us. We have only to confess with our mouths that He is Lord, and believe in our hearts that God has raised Him from the dead--and raised us in Him-- and we shall live.

A good introduction to his work is A Dubose Reader, ed. Donald Armentrout (1984, University of the South Press, Sewanee, Tennessee) 0-918-769-06-X, paperback 256 pp. $11.

The reader with access to a large library might also want to read The Ecumenical Councils (1977, Gordon Press) $60, ISBN 0-8490-1751-3.

[Remark: Since the subject of Episcopalian clergy in the Confederate Army has come up, I will say something about a bishop who was a general: The Rt. Rev. Maj. Gen. Leonidas K. Polk, CSA. My source is The Civil War, A Narrative, by Shelby Foote.

Polk attended West Point, and roomed with Jefferson Davis. Afterwards, he went into the ministry, becoming Bishop of Louisiana. In June, 1861, he happened to be in Richmond, and called on Davis, who promptly said: "We need good officers. I hereby commission you as Major General in command of troops in the Mississippi Valley." Polk, like others, assumed that the war would be over in a matter of weeks, and did not resign his bishopric.

While acting as a general, he did not forget his concerns for the spiritual well-being of his fellow soldiers. One night in May, 1864, on the battlefield at Resaca, Georgia, he baptized and confirmed Gen. John Bell Hood. Hood had lost a leg and the use of an arm at Gettysburg and was unable to kneel, or for that matter to ride a horse unless strapped into the saddle. Polk wanted him to sit for the service, but Hood insisted on standing while supported by crutches. A week later Polk baptized his immediate superior, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston of the Army of Tennessee.

On June 14, 1864, at the battle of Pine Mountain, Georgia, he was struck by a shell and killed instantly. He was 58.]

The biographies were written by James Kiefer

LinK: http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/home.html