Xavier Ferrer Chust
St. Filomena. Haiti, 2017
Saint Philomena. Haiti, 2017
For at least 125 years, the cult of Saint Philomena has enjoyed enormous popularity in and around the coastal town of Bord de Mer de Limonade, in northern Haiti, just ten kilometers east of Cap Haitien, the second largest city largest in the country. Although periodically repressed by the hierarchy of the Catholic Church due to the free syncretism between the saint and the maritime spirit of Vodou Lasyrenn (The Mermaid), the devotion to Saint Philomena thrives in Bord de Mer, whose sanctuary attracts hundreds of pilgrims every week already thousands during their first days of September. holiday celebrations.
