As a friend of mine says, you just can’t make this
stuff up, folks.
Cecilia Gimenez has ratcheted up an already bizarre
story.
The 81-year-old woman (without encumbrance of any
artistic understanding or talent) “restored” a fading fresco at the Sanctuary
of Mercy Church in Borja, Spain, with predictable results.
That was passing strange.
Then the botch-job became a attraction—for paying
tourists. Not sure whether the visitors would be the same sort who pay $28K for
a ten-year-old grilled
cheese sandwich with the image of the Virgin Mary, or just people with too
many frequent flyer miles on their hands.
Whatever. But since the church is now a destination,
Gimenez has hired counsel and is demanding
a cut of the gate.
However this plays out, I refer you to my opening
paragraph.
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