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  • Teenage 'devil worshipper' arrested for vandalizing church in Spain [Santa Faz, Alicante]

    05/10/2017 6:56:25 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 2 replies
    TheLocal.es ^ | 9 May 2017 09:50 CEST+02:00
    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,...