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From the Nutty Catholicism Department…

26-Sep-12

Chitradurga A friend tipped me off to the story of the “monkey Jesus,” a botched fresco-restoration effort by an elderly woman in a Spanish parochial church.  “The once dignified portrait now resembles a crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic,” the BBC story reports.  This is fine: paintings sometimes get destroyed.  But […]