Posted on 02/08/2023 6:01:55 PM PST by marshmallow
CNA Newsroom, Feb 2, 2023 / 13:45 pm On Feb. 2, the feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple and the Virgin of Candlemas, a vandal desecrated an image of Jesus in a Catholic church in Jerusalem.
The Associated Press reported that the attack occurred at the Church of the Flagellation located on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, the route that Christ walked to Mount Calvary, where he was crucified.
The suspect in the attack is an American tourist who was detained by Israeli police officers after throwing the image of Christ to the ground. The authorities did not immediately release the man’s name.
As he was arrested, the man shouted, “You can’t have idols in Jerusalem, this is the Holy City!” According to police, he is undergoing psychological evaluation.
Father José de Jesús Aguilar, deputy director of radio and television for the Archdiocese of Mexico, posted a video showing the man’s arrest and deploring what happened.
“Unfortunately today, Brother Francisco Benito, a great friend of the custodians in Jerusalem, sent me an image in which a fanatic threw down a sculpture of Christ in one of the chapels on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem,” the priest explained.
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Yes, that’s true.
It’s a deeply powerful place.
Yup. Called “Jerusalem syndrome”
I’ve known some but they were Presbyterians. We didn’t allow pictures of Jesus in the Sunday School rooms.
“You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.”
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I think ‘carved image’ is a truer translation than ‘idol’ in that verse.
And I ponder that verse as I look at paintings and sculptures in and out of the Church.
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