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mahatmakanejeeves

(64,670 posts)
Thu Dec 9, 2021, 10:50 AM Dec 2021

Statue at Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception vandalized

Statue at Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception vandalized

Kristi King | kking@wtop.com

December 8, 2021, 8:53 PM



D.C. police are investigating vandalism in a religious garden in Northeast, in which a man wielding a hammer knocked off a statue’s hands and pummeled its face before leaving with the hands.

It happened in the Rosary Walk and Garden of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception late Sunday night.

Surveillance video of the attack on the Our Lady of Fatima statue shows a man knocking off the statue’s hands, stepping back, pausing to examine the effect, hopping back onto the statue’s pedestal to pound the statue’s face and then calmly walking away with the hands.

“Though we are deeply pained by this incident, we pray for the perpetrator through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary under her title of Our Lady of Fatima,” Monsignor Walter Rossi, rector of the Basilica said in a statement.

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Statue at Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception vandalized (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 OP
Here's an idea ... NanceGreggs Dec 2021 #1
That's pretty cold. arlyellowdog Dec 2021 #2
It was meant to be. NanceGreggs Dec 2021 #3
Hammering the face of Mother Mary? Sanity Claws Dec 2021 #4

NanceGreggs

(27,835 posts)
1. Here's an idea ...
Thu Dec 9, 2021, 10:59 AM
Dec 2021

Stop being "pained" and praying for the perpetrator - and start recognizing the fact that people who do things like this are beyond your prayers.

Sanity Claws

(22,187 posts)
4. Hammering the face of Mother Mary?
Thu Dec 9, 2021, 12:29 PM
Dec 2021

This is one sick dude. Mother Mary represents nothing but love. Maybe he has mother issues.

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