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MADRID — A small Spanish town is trying to figure out what to do with a century-old painting of Christ that has been disfigured by an elderly parishioner who was trying to restore it.
The woman, Cecilia Gimenez, who is in her 80s, said on Spanish national television that she had tried to restore the fresco in Santuario de la Misericordia, a Roman Catholic church in Borja, near the city of Zaragoza. She said she was upset that parts of it had flaked off due to moisture on the church’s walls.
Authorities said she acted on her own.
The fresco by artist Elias Garcia Martinez is of the genre known as “Ecce Homo” style (“Behold the Man”). But on Thursday some Twitter users were dubbing it “Ecce Mono” (“Behold the Monkey”).
