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Source: Newyork Times
Santuario : Colombia | 9 months ago  
August 23, 2012 An elderly woman stepped forward this week to claim responsibility for disfiguring a century-old ecce homo fresco of Jesus crowned with thorns, in Santuario de l Misericordia,...
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