Arrived the weekend of April 16 in the city of Lucon a statue of the Virgin was atrophied to the cause. It had been behind the church of the Sacre-Coeur. Pulled or hard-pressed from its billet, the forefront was found approach to the day arrest average, The prefect of Vend'ee, Jean-Jacques Brot visited the site on Monday: "It is an monstrous act freeway timed for Blessed Week" he acknowledged to the church offer workforce. "It is very an bring into disrepute on la"icit'e and on the republican agreement." The bishop of Lucon deplored "the uselessness of such indignation. We can lone be disconcert by this act of sacrilege."
Source: Le Salon Off-white
Sundry church in Vend'ee (underside) was besmirched fold up in two days. The conclusion collection style assumes the job was done by the "peak liberty" from the time when of the attendance of satanic symbols:
Chalk inscriptions, satanic symbols of the peak liberty. The Medieval church of Angles, with Longeville-sur-Mer and La Tranche-sur-Mer, in Vend'ee was attacked fold up - Monday break of day, the first set of inscriptions and graffiti were exposed, moreover a diminutive set on Tuesday break of day. "Satan", satanic pentacles, various Celtic crosses, a symbol adopted by various peak liberty groups. Argument was found state the altar and some pompous benches. The public has filed a circumstances. The gendarmerie has opened an examination. The lawmaker prefect, B'eatrice Lagarde "firmly condemns" these acts: "Whatever the religion or the place of adore, it is an taste on the standard of la"icit'e."
Worth noting: The writer of the tract has assimilated Celtic crosses with "satanic symbols". And the prefect requirements it to be bound to happen that it was an taste, not on Catholicism, but on la"icit'e!
Le Salon Off-white wonders why no one has acknowledged the graffiti to be "art".
Source: Le Salon Off-white
A church in Seine-Saint-Denis was burglarized on Palm Sunday. If this was not unsettling sufficient it was the diminutive time in less than two weeks that an attack had been perpetrated. In postscript, the exclusive tract in Le Parisien optional it was an act calm by Muslims. Exactly thereafter, the paper deleted the allude to, but around readers were quick sufficient to notice the deletion:
At what time Amount, the control popular at the Saint John church in the Rose-des-Vents question, in Aulnay-sous-Bois. They began searching for clues to find the soul or introduce somebody to an area who had busted a television in the sacristy, intermittent two pompous crosses, and in rags photos off the wall of Popes Jean-Paul II and Benedict XVI.
The taste aroused unbearable memories of a in progress robbery. (...) It was the night of April 5. "Doors high, reserve boxes pillaged, microphones stolen, a tabernacle without hope." Ever such as that day, nothing, not even money for candles is absent out, explained Patrick Morvan, the priest in charge of the Saint-Sulpice rural community and of all churches in Aulnay-sous-Bois. "If their intent is to rob, they are manslaughter their time. At what time Amount we store up everything! This time we don't know how they got in, offer was no degree of a robbery. Perhaps they amicable a impertinence in vogue the service..." It was Palm Sunday and the church was sticky.
One Le Parisien reader writes:
- The inscriptions they found were "Allah Akbar" (our God is the farthest) in print in Arabic. You sway to sway mastered the language to tinge this type of honest on the wall. It's true, activities breed this one are very changeable for Catholics and i's not realization any bigger.
Sundry agrees:
- I grant justified. I'm an agnostic and I courtesy all religions. Why don't the media homily about it? As you say, whenever it affects option religion, they homily about it liberty to the right, but in the role of it's a church, it's as if it didn't toting up at all. I don't understand this in mint condition treatment. Regularity very crucial courtesy for ALL.
Sources: Le Salon Off-white and Le Parisien
Underneath, the Saint John church in Seine-Saint-Denis. How refusal to sway to guide Palm Sunday Amount in this personal history.
