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Chester Higgins

The Man with the Eyes For Sacredness

By Samuel Phillips

some recall of what the place looked like as I saw Cathedral.

Chester’s images. Unknown to us, the day we visited
the mount was on one of their Ethiopia Tawahido Chester Higgins has done a masterful
church holy days. So, the entire place was filled job with this book. Here is a short
with faithful all doing one activity or the other. excerpt from the book:
I remember trying to take photos of some of the “Sacred Nile is my portrait of the

worship activities going on in one of the cathedrals spiritual imagination and the genesis
we went to but I was not allowed to by the priests. of faith in Africa. Ancient records left
It was their holy day. ‘intruders’ were not allowed, in stone detail Africans’ philosophical

especially to take photos. I did manage to take quest to wrestle with the seminal issues
one though. I think the man who allowed me to of who we are, where we are, and what
have a photo of him was one of the leaders of that is our purpose.

Night procession for the annual November Festival of Saint Mary. Here celebrated at
the Cathedral of Our Lady Mary of Tsion. Aksum, Ethiopia, 2011. Image: Chester Higgins
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