The stuff that priests are made of ...

The Crescat ^ | August 31, 2009 | Carolina Cannonball

[monkapotamus]

[photo source] 4 June 1962. Navy chaplain Luis Padillo was giving last rites to dying soldiers as sniper fire surrounded him. A wounded soldier pulled himself up by clinging to the priest’s cassock, as bullets chewed up the concrete around them. Hector Rondón Lovera, who had to lie flat to avoid getting shot, later said that he was unsure how he managed to take this picture. [See all pictures he took that day]. Norman Rockwell eeriely used this photograph as a template for his Southern Justice painting, “Murder in Mississippi“.

Thanks, Lucian, for the link.

[monkapotamus]

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[Steelfish]

The pic says it all. Thanks for the post.

[SevenofNine]

Monk prop to that photo where you get it Dude

[Rampolla]

What conflict was this? I see signs in the background in Spanish?

[monkapotamus]

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