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10-08-2007, 05:10 PM
Bishop Diomedes Espinal de Leon, the head of the Mao-Montecristi dioceses, has asked the Haitian people for forgiveness for the 1937 massacre that took place near Dajabon on the Haitian frontier. Espinal de Leon was celebrating a commemorative mass on the occasion of the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, the patron of Dajabon. His sermon asked, in the name of the Church and the Dominican people, for the Haitian people to forgive the horrendous events of 1937 "that have caused deep wounds to the Haitian people, and scarred the Dominican people" Espinal de Leon reminded his audience that Pope John Paul II had asked the Jewish people for forgiveness for the Holocaust, and he was asking the Haitians in a similar manner. The Mass was co-officiated by Bishop Espinal, Haitian Jesuit Perard Monestime as well as Dominican Jesuits Guillermo Perdomo and Ramiro Pampols, and Father Roberto Guzman, the head of the parish.
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