L'auteur de Papa Toussaint n'est plus

Dr. Charles Richard (Dick) Gillespie, était l'auteur
du roman intitulé Papa Toussaint. Il a été aussi
professeur de théatre à l'Université de Towson au
Maryland.

Dick a été mon correspondant au début
du millénaire. En 2003, pendant que je publiais
mon premier magazine en ligne, eMagazine, il
a été l'un des auteurs participants dans une
série appelée A Tour of History. Il était, comme
moi, un passionné de l'histoire d'Haiti, et voulait
apporter quelques précisions sur les faits historiques
concernant mon pays d'origine.

Au fil du temps, notre correspondance a été interrompu.
Je ne me rendais pas compte que mon ami, si habile avec
les mots, souffrait et perdait à petits coups, une lutte
engagée contre la maladie Alzheimer. Je me demandais souvent,
mais pourquoi il n'écrit plus?

Voici quelques passages: (inclus dans mon livre
The Colonists Manifesto)

A Tour of History with Richard Gillespie

Thanks, for joining us for another discussion regarding
an important figure in the Saint-Domingue Revolution: The
Abbe Gregory.

Veritas - The Abbe Gregory, seemed to shout what most people
could only whisper in 1791. Dick, tell the readers who was
Abbe Gregory?

Richard Gillespie - The Abbé Henri Grégoire was born in
1750 and dies in 1831. He was a schismatic priest whose
adherence to two heresies with long histories in France,
and commitment to the principles and political actions of
the French Revolution, put him in the forefront of the
battle for human rights.

Grégoire was a Jansenist, that is an adherent to the
religious philosophy of Cornelius Jensen (1535-1638).
Jansen aligned himslef with the views of Saint-Augustine
in opposition to the Jesuits who embraced the views of
Saint-Thomas Aquinas. Essentially, Jansen rejected the
strict scholasticism of the Jesuits. Jansen was concerned
that the Church was rejecting Christian traditions that
did not meet the logical standards established by the
scholastics. He felt that simple experiences of faith,
and belief in unexplainable mysteries, were being sacrificed
by the Church in favor of logic. He did not go as far as the
Protestant reformers because he did not believe that one
could be saved by faith alone.

Dick est mort le 2 Avril 2016 à l'âge de 85 ans.

R.I.P