"Patrasche! I'm no longer miserable.
At last I met Him whom I have been dreamed, now He is in us, you and I..."
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| The Animated Film A Dog of Flanders |
☃ This story calmly and in a flash cross my mind as I think the tribulation of our lives is this; the orphan Nello was the protagonist of the famous novel “ A Dog Of Flanders ”. He was a pathetic little boy who early lost his parent, so that lived with a kind grandfather in Belgium, selling milk from day to day. But the earnings was a chicken feed, though they worked hand and foot from early morning until dusky evening...
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| Selling Milk |
Yes, it was a lowly life... and the fate let this little boy become an orphan in this damnable world. Notwithstanding his dream was to be a great painter, yet he was too poor to achieve that dream and was always disdained from his girlfriend's (Aloise) father who was the rich in that village.
One day this miserable boy was cornered as a fire-raiser from his girlfriend's father, so while the boy was driven out from that village. Even his self-taught painting failed an art contest.
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| Nello and Patrasche In The Snowstorm |
Thus his girl friend Aloise desperately looked for Nello in the snowstorm, yelling out his name; "Nello, Nello, Nello, where are you, where are you, where are you!" However, her dearest cry was nullified, instead the howling snowstorm merely reverberated with her cry...
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| Crying Aloise In The Snowstorm |
After all, Nello went to the cathedral named Antwerpen in which he had wanted to ardently admire paintings that was the immortal masterpieces of Peter Paul Rubens.
Nellow would have wanted to be consoled his wretched life in there at the dead-end moment... yes before dying... Who would be able to comfort Nello and his lowly life in the face of death?... He must have wanted to meet Jesus[Christ] that way before he died, although he was just a little boy who would not know what death was. That said, oddly as the death is coming nearer, people seem to know the dead-end time on their own...
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| Cathedral |
In the end, Nello met Jesus [Christ] through the masterpiece of Rubens( Belgium, 17C) on Christmas day. The paintings were awe-inspiring and magnificent which were entitled "Raising of the Cross" and "Descent of the Cross". That was the thing that Nello eagerly wished to see once-in-a-lifetime. Because the poor boy had no money to admire the remarkable paintings in the cathedral. For the cathedral asked money, the admission fee, even to the poor little boy. However, the cathedral especially opened the painting exhibition free of charge only for Christmas day.
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| The Animated Film A Dog Of Flanders |
At last on Christmas day the boy was frozen to death with his lovely dog named "Patrasche" in the cathedral where the hypocritical religion was symbolized.
It would have still been snowing outside the cathedral... No one was that place except the Spirit of Jesus Christ and His angels. His frozen body and his frozen dog Patrasche were only left there with the memorable music that was a well-known hymn, "Nearer, My God, To Thee". When the sound of hymn was resounding in the cathedral, the narrator of this anime recited this:
" From now on, there will be no longer the coldness, sadness... and starvation."
This is the hymn that I recorded in 2018 or 2019. About that time, I played the violin with a certain cellist, which means that I downloaded the background music from YouTube. The loud sound is the sound of violin that I played as an amateur without a special recording equipment. When the hymn got to the end part, we played it at one time without harmony, so while it sounds like an unseparated sound. And then I played the violin in harmony again; my violin sound is too short unlike the sound of cello that cellist played. Despite I uploaded it on my blog. What I can upload it shamelessly on my blog is that I'm none other than an armature... While if I'm a violinist indeed, I will not be able to upload this abashed video as below:
There was no any kind of rebels such as the French Revolution (1789~1799) that revolutionized against the depraved nobility, the rich, the royal authority.
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| The Last Death of Nello and Patrasche |
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