It happened one night in Borja!
At left, the original painting "Ecce Homo" by Elias Garcia Martinez painted on the wall of the church Santuario de Misericordia in Borja, Spain.
At right, the down-home restoration efforts of what one official calls, "a neighboring octogenarian who acted spontaneously and without asking anyone's permission, although she meant well."
Max Read of Gawker writes:
A couple of weeks ago, the Centro de Estudios Borjanos in Borja, Spain, received a donation from the granddaughter of 19th-century painter Elías García Martínez. The image on right is how it looked when the Centro went to check it out on August 6th after receiving the donation.Hmm.
There is plenty of opportunity here for a mature, sophisticated dialogue over the destruction of religious art however, after spending the last hour in hysterics, laughing until I wept, I think it best to to keep myself out of such discussions.
The commentary on El Pais' website was highly entertaining but one remark really hit home for me:
"Parece el cristo de alfa-centauro" ~ Francisco Javier Navarro
(It looks like the Christ of Alpha Centauri)
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