The archbishop of Port Au Prince Funeral took place in a parking lot funeral while most of 111,000 Haiti’s Earthquake Dead went to mass graves.
Archbishop of Haiti Funeral- Photo Credit-Shawn Thew/EPA
” Hundreds of Haitians — some still bandaged, many in tears — gathered in the parking lot of the destroyed cathedral here Saturday for the funeral of the archbishop of Port-au-Prince.
Revered as a humble servant of the poor, Msgr. Joseph Serge Miot, 63, died as so many others did: crushed by his own home. Priests and his relatives emphasized that his death was one among multitudes.
The vicar general of the main cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Msgr. Charles Benoit, died with him, and on Saturday the two clergymen lay in a pair of white caskets just a few hundred yards from the rubble that killed them.
Bishop Lafontant, meanwhile, implored the country’s Christians to see the cataclysm as an opportunity for growth.
“God had something to say and he said it here,” the bishop said. “He did it because he wants Haiti to become a new country.”
For most, however, grief and exhaustion still reigned. As the hearse moved out of the parking lot, the sister of Monsignor Benoit slapped the window, cried and screamed.via www.nytimes.com
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