Castera Bazile (7 October 1923 – 27 February 1966) was a

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an painter. Born in

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, Bazile painted several murals in the Holy Trinity Cathedral in

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. He won the grand prize at the Caribbean International Competition in 1955. Bazile died of

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in 1966 in Port-au-Prince, age 42.

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