In 1963-4 it didn't matter to music lovers in 11 countries that they couldn't understand what Belgian nun Sister Luc-Gabrielle; Soeur Sourire, Jeannine Deckers, was singing about the founder of her order, St. Dominic. They grooved to the cheery song, one of the few foreign language number 1 hits in America. Though I studied French for many years, I didn't get more than fifty percent of it. That's why I am providing a translation with the help of the internet and my French colleague philipchek who informed me about the Albigensian heretics, the Inquisition, the Catholic Church, and St. Dominic. Dominic was a gifted 13th-century preacher who wanted no part of the church's bloody wars against heretics or the barbaric cruelty of the Inquisition. His method of conversion was preaching. He founded an order of preaching friars and convents. Miracles were ascribed to his name, The singing nun was a feminist singer/songwriter, who, after her one big hit's financial success was hounded to suicide by the Belgian tax collectors. Her other songs can be found on RU-vid.
7 окт 2024
