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Expecting a miracle at Lourdes? Bet you didn't expect this...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6127235/Good-Lourdes-Artist-arrested-stripping-NAKED-French-Catholic-pilgrimage-site.html
PUBLISHED: 11:19 EDT, 3 September 2018 | UPDATED: 23:58 EDT, 3 September 2018
A performance artist has been arrested for posing naked at a Catholic pilgrimage site in the French town of Lourdes.
Infamous provocateur and feminist Deborah de Robertis stripped off at the Sanctuary of our Lady of Lourdes on Friday.
Wearing only a blue veil on her head, she stood in front of a statue adorned with candles and placed her hands in a praying position.
Visitors were visibly shocked by her actions with one upset onlooker even trying to cover her with the veil.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Let's check my memory...could that be a former model for Picasso. The Roman Catholic Church did not appreciate his art.
(The Detroit Institute of Art counts him as a patron.)
MineralMan
(147,569 posts)Our Lady of Lourdes above. Seems reverent enough for me.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)spend taxpayer dollars to hide statues of women in the Justice Department? We know he did. As for the "miracles" myth, Lourdes, it is a scam. imo
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jan/29/news/mn-25302
MineralMan
(147,569 posts)Offended him, they did. Covered them up, too. No bare titties in his Justice Department, I'll have you know.
Hilarious. We're all naked, really. All our lives. We just cover up and pretend we're not. The naked truth is still there, though.
Cartoonist
(7,529 posts)When I have a dream in which I am naked in public, people look at me funny, but they never call the cops. Just lucky I guess.
MineralMan
(147,569 posts)I walk on.
NeoGreen
(4,033 posts)...I'm dreaming naked...or is that naked dreaming?
Either way, no one notices that I'm flying or, let alone, naked.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)I wonder where said outrage ranks in comparison to, say, robbing women and girls of their right to reproductive health.
MineralMan
(147,569 posts)I'm surprised that people didn't just snap some photos and move on, sort of. That's what I'd have done, if I were there, but Lourdes is not one of those places that's on any of my bucket lists.
NeoGreen
(4,033 posts)...to join in on the performance art?
If people were upset when SHE did it... (just sayin')
MineralMan
(147,569 posts)That time has long since passed.
NeoGreen
(4,033 posts)..my joke.
I guess it is a good thing I'm not a comedian by profession.
MineralMan
(147,569 posts)NeoGreen
(4,033 posts)...but it's still a good thing I don't rely on my comedic abilities to pay my bills.
TlalocW
(15,624 posts)Nudity's a no-no.
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MineralMan
(147,569 posts)I guess performance art is different though...
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)MineralMan
(147,569 posts)guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)but one assumes that the people at Lourdes did not.
MineralMan
(147,569 posts)I suspect others Weyerhaeuser or bemused by her performance.