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Prologue Opening Frames, Orientations
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Must we unfold the ancient drama and the epic?Go to Mbissel, go to Fa’oy; Recite the rosary of sanctuariesThat marks out the Great WayRetrace the steps of the Royal Road and meditate over the Way of the CrossAnd GloryYour High Priests will answer: Way of the Blood!l. s. senghor, “le message”1Close
October 1848. Shortly after arriving in the small trading village of Joal on the coast of Senegal, Father Gallais embarked on the first of what would become many trips to Diakhao, the capital of the kingdom of Siin. The small Catholic mission of Joal had been founded nine months before, attracted by the prospects of conversion among the Seereer, Siin’s largest population, reputed for their animism and staunch resistance to the incursions of Islam. The mission, however, was established without the permission of the Siin ruler, without much backing from the French colonial administration, and had very little support within the village. Problems erupted almost immediately. The priests’ presence raised fierce suspicion from local residents, especially elders, who contested the sincerity of the mission’s evangelical motives. Then came the royal envoys and the countless vexations the priests endured at their hands. Many times, the king’s strongmen descended upon the mission to collect the payments of liquor, gunpowder, and textiles normally expected of French traders, resorting to the persuasion of weapons when the fathers proved insufficiently cooperative. Tensions reached their zenith in June, when the missionaries hoisted up the frame of a small wooden church. Traveling fast, the news triggered a vigorous response from Joal residents and neighboring villages, which joined forces to block the construction. After months of pourparlers, the village governor’s continued insistence that the chapel should be built of straw, like all architecture in the region, prompted Gallais’s quest for a higher ruling before the king himself.2Close
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