Cathedral damage - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 10 Dec 2020 02:30:15 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Cathedral damage - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Crane knocks head and torso off St. Paul statue https://cathnews.co.nz/2020/12/10/crane-knocks-st-paul-statue/ Thu, 10 Dec 2020 06:51:01 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=133130 A construction crane knocked the head and torso off a statue of St. Paul atop Liège Cathedral in Belgium Monday. CathoBel, the official website of the Catholic Church in Francophone Belgium, reported that the accident occurred in the early afternoon on Dec. 7 as the cathedral, which is dedicated to St. Paul, was nearing the Read more

Crane knocks head and torso off St. Paul statue... Read more]]> A construction crane knocked the head and torso off a statue of St. Paul atop Liège Cathedral in Belgium Monday.

CathoBel, the official website of the Catholic Church in Francophone Belgium, reported that the accident occurred in the early afternoon on Dec. 7 as the cathedral, which is dedicated to St. Paul, was nearing the end of five years of restoration work.

The crane separated the head and upper body from the statue, causing them to plunge through the cathedral's roof and become lodged in a hole that they created in the building's ceiling.

Photographs showed that the broken statue was partially visible from inside the cathedral, embedded in a brightly decorated vaulted ceiling.

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