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New sacrilegious act in a church in the Madrid suburb of Navan

Spain

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Flashes of the Church .- A new act of sacrilege has occurred in a Community Church of Madrid, in the weekend. This time it was the town of Navan which has seen a man has attacked Sunday against several pictures of the church of Our Lady of the Assumption, causing a lot damage. The subject had noticed that morning to the neighbors who would commit the crime but no one listened.



The incident occurred before the first Sunday Eucharist. At that time, the author of the sacrilegious act destroyed several religious images of virgins and saints, who have been disfigured or in some cases, amputations.



The pastor, Marcos Fermin, and one of the nuns tried to reason with and appease the aggressor, without getting to desist in their attitude, so they immediately alerted the authorities. "You you have to do is to pray or make a call ", it seems that the priest repeated several times as he tried to calm him.



Local police also joined in the place a few minutes and proceeded to arrest, transferring later to the Civil Guard, who shall bring to court Monday. Prior to the vandalism, the subject had been on the laptop that is installed churrería every Sunday in the main square of the town, telling neighbors what was going to do, but nobody took him seriously.



images were destroyed and had plaster in the church from the 30's of last century. "His value is more sentimental than economic," said the pastor. However, among the images is damaged figure of San Isidro Labrador, which was to have gone in procession to the shrine of the same name on Sunday.



The local mayor, Baltasar Santos, regretted the incident, labeled a "terrible and very serious", noting that "attacking religious imagery is not only going against the faith of the people and the tradition of a people, but also against the historical and artistic heritage, both are fighting to preserve. "The last similar incident in the region occurred in April, when they stole the chalice, the vestments and a chalice of the Church of Ciempozuelos. A month earlier, a similar event occurred in the Church of the Ascension of Carabanchel. And in February, unknown persons stole the sanctuary of the church of Santa Catalina in Majadahonda, who had already suffered another robbery on Christmas Eve