Friday, 28 December 2018

How 'Monkey Christ' brought new life to a quiet Spanish town

Cecilia Giménez is proud of her amateur restoration, which has boosted tourism to Borja and helped fund an old people’s home

Tangible and competitively-priced proof of one of the Lord’s more mysterious recent manoeuvres can be found in a church nestled in the foothills of the Sierra de Moncayo in northeastern Spain.

A familiar face, now known to the world as Monkey Christ, greets visitors to the Santuario de Misericordia, its blurred and startled features staring down from bottles, thimbles, bookmarks, teddy bears, pens, mugs, T-shirts, mousepads, badges, fridge magnets and keyrings.

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from World news | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2SnqdIL

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