A sermon which still resonates for today

A voice echoes from 500 years ago, and there are many at the same time. The heartbreaking and thirsty claim of Justice of a friar in the pulpit made germinate a fight did not even finish for human and labour rights.

Fray Antonio Montesinos - and not fray Antón de Montesinos is believed - gave the face and restregó to the highest representation of the Crown Spanish immoral the extermination of the Taíno of Quisqueya and gave voice to the teachings of Pedro de Cordova, the young Dominican who barely 28 years directed the order on the island, and to the Bernardo of Santo Domingo. A score of men of faith rebelled against abuse and fought to ensure that indigenous peoples enjoy rights.

Vientidós expert voices most select the Dominican intelligentsia and international guests - from history, sociology, theology, architecture, politics, the restoration and other areas - give life to a sermon pronounced December 21 as current account u000a1511.

Lucia Amelia Cabral, María Amalia León y María Teresa Catrain can almost recite the 47-minute documentary "Five centuries of advent", that will be exhibited for the first time in the country this Sunday 11 at the Blue Mall cinema Palace, then cross cultural centers, parks, schools and all the spaces that wish to host this documentary. Joined them very personal follow-up of Pirigua Bonetti and his directed Foundation, which together with the Foundation Eduardo León Jimenez and the Dominica Quinta made it possible.

Them have devoted a year to its conception and three months to prepare. Was already presented in Washington, United States, during the Congress "the universality of rights, human - 500" with great success.

achieved a rapprochement with the taíno, the encounter between two cultures, the cruel exploitation by the search for gold, the Encomienda and advent sermon, which laid the foundations ñsegún specialists u000acalled in the documentalñ for the first labour laws and was inspiration and provocation for the Declaration of the rights of man and the citizen.

The documentary
analyses and inputs that make up the audiovisual include Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Wenceslaus Vega, Manuel García Arévalo, Hugo Tolentino Dipp, Carlos Macio Veloz Maggiolo, José Chez Czech, Fabio Herrera Roa, Juan Miguel Pérez, Jaime Domínguez Menéndez, Pedro Catrain, Jaume Segura Socías, César Ivan Feris Iglesias, Javier Atienza, O.P, Francisco Torres Petitón, Eugenio Pérez Montás, Mu-Kien SangChestnut Servius Tullius, Catherine Mac-Lorin and Manuel Maceiras Luis Méndez.

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