Douai: Decapitated statues cause shock amongst the parish faithful

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An original translation from this French News site

By Jeff B. with much thanks

The Church of Sainte-Thérèse was once again a victim of an incident on Christmas day, Thursday, December 25.

Eight statues representing figures from a Nativity scene from the Bible were beheaded. In response, the Parish has been forced to close its doors to the public.

The Church Sainte-Thérèse, located on the “rue de Douai” in Cuincy, France was a victim of a ruthless act and its followers are in a state of shock.

Thursday, December 25, Christmas day, one or more individuals broke into the Church and broke eight statuettes including six that represented the crib (of the baby Jesus). It is troubling that the evil doers attacked the statues of humans.

The reasons?  “I do not understand the message, says a member of the parish. The statues of the Nativity animals have remained intact but all those representing biblical figures were destroyed. As well as the statue of Sainte-Rita”.

They broke in but did not leave with money…

It would appear that the authors (of this crime) were targeting directly the parish priest, Abbé Jean-Paul Bhagiwant Patil.

“There was a little money in the Manger, points out a faithful parishioner of the Church Sainte-Thérèse, but they left it be. ” They only went after symbolic objects. This really looks like a personal attack against the Abbot”.

These incidents come after only a week after the discovery of graffiti of swastikas on the walls of the building with the term pedophile annotated below. Accusations that have shocked the faithful and douaisiens priests. As a precautionary measure, the Church Sainte-Thérèse and those of

Cuincy, Esquerchin and Lauwin-Planque will only be opened to the public in the mass hours until further notice.

[Below, a video on the same incident. Personally, I have my doubts that it is personal so much as religious. I wonder what kind of area this is?]

(Somehow I doubt members of Marine Lepen’s party would vandalize a church and if they did, would leave behind trinkets indicating it was them.)

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5 Replies to “Douai: Decapitated statues cause shock amongst the parish faithful”

  1. Another Moslem attack on a Christian Church.

    I think Marine Lepen’s party would be smart enough not to leave evidence behind them.

    • “they” killed two birds with one stroke: They are probably intellectually challenged enough to think they will damage Marine LePen’s party, it’s a very vulgar attempt, and then the decapitation of “human” personages only.
      Perhaps they did not attack animals, as Ramadan is over for the year….

  2. We are lucky to have democracy and freedom, la liberté, la fraternité et l’égalité and they are working under own eyes. Our muslim brothers are free to smash anything.

  3. Just a little aside:

    The article tells us that they “killed” the statue of St. Rita.
    St. Rita is the patron sainte of “lost causes”. A heavy hint?

    • That could be, but this explanation requires that they have a detailed knowledge of which Saint is supporting what causes or action.