Posts Tagged ‘Our Lady of Aparecida statue’

Court allows giant statue of Virgin Mary to be built in Brazil

Thursday, March 31st, 2022

São Paulo State’s Court of Appeals has reversed a 2019 decision that stopped the building of a giant steel statue of the Virgin Mary in Aparecida, the city where Brazil’s major Catholic shrine is located. The 164-feet stainless steel sculpture portraying Our Lady of Aparecida – taller than Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer – Read more