The Cathedral of Saint Cecille - Priceless

While surfing the Net I found a series of photos in a site similar to Flickr.  Every time I go to France, I go to Albi, and get lost in two splendid sites.  One is the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum.  It contains amazing posters, watercolor art, pencil sketches, everything is original.  Some areas are darker so the light won't destroy the pencil drawings kept under glass.

Outside we bathe in the beauty of a Lenôtre garden. Those are the world famous ones with curves of different foliage, architecture/sculptures he designed for the Versailles and the Toulouse-Lautrec family.

Albi has a small city center.  The next stop is the Cathedral of Saint Cecille. The French pretend the Muslims never got to France.  They occupied Portugal and Spain.  And the southwest of France. Richerd Wright wrote about the impact of Islam on these peoples in "Pagan Spain."  The main trait is fatalism, meaning "Only God knows."

The cathedral took about 400 years to build.  There are aspects of pretty developed gothic arches, there is the blue pigment that made the region rich.  The altar displays an awesome "Judgement Day" as interpreted by recent converts from pagan religions.  I really like the sinners and their environment.
Capital sins being: ire, sloth, envy, gluttony, avarice, luxury ( sex addiction),and the worst of all of the, the one that sent Lucifer to hell: Pride.

Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a perfect example of pride as a sin.  He thinks everybody in his village is a devil worshipper.   He becomes a lonely  guy. The Puritans, the founders of New England, and the USA, had notions of hard work as redemption from sin.  No wonder they were shipped out of England.

I would like to leave you a link to this Moorish/Gothic/Romanesque cathedral. I hope you appreciate it (and Albi) as much as I do.

The Album by pfjc  at  webshots.com.  Just awesome.  Click.