Catedral Metropolitana

What the picture doesn't show is this:
a street person was on the bench in front of us,
asleep, his body at a 45 degree angle.

We stopped to see the inside of the Catedral Metropolitana at the Plaza de Mayo.

 The tomb of General Jose de San Martin, Argentina’s most revered hero, is buried here.

A flame burning on the outside of the church keeps his spirit alive.

The cathedral has neoclassical columns and a triangular facade of Jacob and Joseph.

I thought I was seeing a Greek temple.

... at the tomb, two guards left behind, three march away ...

Greg and I took pictures when we saw the changing of the guard inside the church at the general’s mausoleum. The priest overseeing the change encouraged the bystanders to give a round of applause to the guards when they left. Wyona was watching the spiritual worship of a 15 year old boy, giving reverence at the sculpture of the broken and bruised body of Jesus. “Where does a 15 year old boy develop such piety,” she was asking herself. She was watching the boy’s mother and father, his brother, but she didn’t have any clues from them.

Arta