At The Guardian:
A woman has been arrested on suspicion of offending religious
sentiment, after posters bearing an image of the Virgin Mary with her
halo painted in the colours of the rainbow flag appeared in the city of
Płock in central Poland.
The Polish interior minister, Joachim Brudziński, announced on
Twitter on Monday that a person had been arrested for “carrying out a
profanation of the Virgin Mary of Częstochowa”.
A Płock police spokeswoman confirmed a 51-year-old woman had been
arrested over the alleged offence. The woman had been abroad, but upon
her return, the police entered and searched her home, where they found
several dozen images of the Virgin Mary with the rainbow-coloured halo.
The “Black Madonna of Częstochowa” is a revered Byzantine icon that
resides in the monastery of Jasna Góra, a UN world heritage site and
Poland’s holiest Catholic shrine.
Offending religious feeling is a crime under the Polish penal code.
If convicted, the woman could face a prison sentence of up to two years.
Update: can someone point Andrew Bolt to this article, because I see he gets really upset with religious interference in art. Well, sometimes, anyway:
1 comment:
Was she a north pole or a south pole
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