Posted on 12/10/2012 12:06:35 PM PST by MNDude
Polish police detained a 58-year-old man Sunday after he threw vials of black paint at the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, an ancient Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary believed to work miracles.
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Every August, thousands of Poles make a spiritual journey to the monastery, a tradition that goes back to 1711 when the bubonic plague decimated Warsaw's population.
When the epidemic suddenly ended, a brotherhood of knights trekked from the capital to the monastery to offer thanks to the Virgin Mary.
The relic has since enjoyed a cult following at home, and its international reputation was boosted by the late Polish pope John Paul II who was deeply devoted to the icon.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
I’m assuming he had to make a special trip to the monestary just to express his dislike of religion, or Mary, or statues in general -
What’s wrong with these people? If it were in the US I would assume the culprit was a person on welfare, bored and with nothing else to do except damage property that was not theirs - or an athiest not content with being an athiest, he has to be an obnoxious jerk of an athiest to make certain everyone knows that he is an obnoxious jerk of an athiest.
Have somebody throw paint on an AIDS quilt and see the difference in reaction.
The Black Madonna will soon be replaced by an image of Barack Hussein Obama smoking a cigarette, so cretins such as this will not feel “judged”. Bob
I read on a site I can no longer locate, that the man, whose name the press gives as Jerzy D., and whose photographs cannot be publicly published, said that he was protesting the worship of images as forbidden by God. A Prottie?
Well, at least it wasn’t elephant dung...
Did it say whether he posted on FR?
This is sad. It is common complaint by non-Catholics of the imagery used in Catholic churches and shrines. It is NOT worship. The statues are there to remind the faithful of those great saints of their lives and to focus their prayers for the intercession of the saint represented with our Lord and Savior for our prayers to be heard.
It's an Icon, not a statue....Guess again.
Well you lost your “bet”. It’s not a statue, it’s an icon. And if you would’ve read an article, there’s a picture of it.
Icon or statue deosn’t matter, I think I won check out this link:
Ivan van Sertima's "scholarship" in his "ethnocentric" view of the history of the world has pretty much been dismissed as fantasy and rubbish.
Fine be ignorant. I am a devout Roman Catholic who knows, and I vow not to be ignorant to the adoption of local beliefs by the Church in the greater good.
Believe what you want but those of us who have been trained by the Jesuits have been warned to avoid the ignorant. So I will ignore you.
Uh, talk about trying to distract from my pointing out that the icon in Jasna Gora is not a statue, and that the author you quoted is viewed as an ethnocentric hack.
Believe what you want but those of us who have been trained by the Jesuits have been warned to avoid the ignorant. So I will ignore you.
Some luminaries who benefitted from Jesuit Education..Janet Napolitano, John Kerry, Chris Matthews..
ROFL... I believe that you meant to say "So I will avoid you." Intriguing slip.
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