An uncanny echo of some Ingrid Bergman movie, like maybe the closing scene of The Seventh Seal? :)

San Antonio, Texas San Fernando Cathedral -- in the early days!

A real - deal ecumenical para - liturgical ritual involving Catholic Christian clergy & Pagans ...

... con - celebrating with live animal sacrifice ...

"There in 1749, the Spaniards celebrated their peace with the Apache nation ...


Snippet from James Wakefield Burke's A Forgotten Glory: The Missions of Old Texas. Waco, Texas: Texian Press, 1979.

Page 111.

"The Old San Fernando Church saw many interesting and exciting scenes enacted on the Main Plaza it faced.

"There in 1749, the Spaniards celebrated their peace with the Apache nation.

"Four chiefs in full paint and feathers danced around a hole dug in the center of the plaza.

"In it were a live horse, a tomahawk, a lance and six arrows.

"The chiefs danced holding hands with the Spanish officers and with the Franciscan missionaries; then the horse was buried along with the tomahawk and lance and arrows.

"Here in 1789 [year of the French Revolution!] six Apache braves, determined to assassinate the governor of the Texas province, forced their way into the Royal House and were cut down by the guards ..."