Posted on 05/10/2017 6:56:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A 17-year-old girl has been arrested for allegedly daubing 666 on a holy reliquary and inverting seven crucifixes inside a church in Alicante.
A priest discovered the vandalism on Sunday morning at the Santa Faz Church and monastery in Alicante, which is home to a relic that, according to tradition, is a veil with which Veronica wiped the bleeding face of Jesus.
The relic is reputed to have been transferred from the Vatican to the Alicante church in the 15th century, which became a place of pilgrimage ever since.
The teenager, who has not been named, was arrested on Monday, after allegedly hiding out in the church overnight to cause the damage. …
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Over the winter a guy with a bad past broke into our church in New Hampshire. Pastor worked with prosecutor to get the man into a program instead of jail.
This Sunday the same man showed up at church, was forgiven, and accepted Christ as his savior.
Look for opportunities wherever they present themselves!
This is the kind of anecdote I was hoping to see with this story but didn’t have any examples. Once, a teenager broke into my house at night and I cornered him with a Bowie knife. I wasn’t going to stab him but I thought his fear of meeting God would have a greater life-changing impact than explaining His love for us. Kids can be stupid. Forgive them Lord, for they know not what they do.
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