Over 200 consecrated hosts stolen, desecrated in Spain art exhibit

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Madrid, Spain, Nov 23, 2015 / 04:40 pm (CNA).- Critics of Pamplona’s city council say it deliberately attacked Catholics and broke Spanish law by using city property to display a sacrilegious art exhibit with more than 240 stolen consecrated Hosts.
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The Spanish artist Abel Azcona stole more than 240 consecrated Hosts by pretending to receive Holy Communion at Mass. He then placed the hosts on the ground to form the word “Pederasty” in Spanish.
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Photos of the theft of the Hosts and their placement on the ground are shown in a public art gallery in Pamplona. The city council there is governed by a Basque separatist coalition called Bildu.
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I don’t know what the world is coming to some days. I sincerely hope criminal charges are brought against this “artist”. If nothing else, receiving stolen goods. Even if someone doesn’t believe in the real presence, surely they can understand the simple concept that the hosts belong to the church. I’m guessing this Abel Azcona can now expect to be excommunicated, so no more hosts for him. The only part of a church he needs to go to now in the confessional. Let’s pray that he understands the error of his ways, finds one sharply and reverently receives Jesus in the future instead of desecrating his precious body.
 
peter26 said:
I don’t know what the world is coming to some days. I sincerely hope criminal charges are brought against this “artist”. If nothing else, receiving stolen goods. Even if someone doesn’t believe in the real presence, surely they can understand the simple concept that the hosts belong to the church. I’m guessing this Abel Azcona can now expect to be excommunicated, so no more hosts for him. The only part of a church he needs to go to now in the confessional. Let’s pray that he understands the error of his ways, finds one sharply and reverently receives Jesus in the future instead of desecrating his precious body.
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Based on this interview, he is anti-religion and had another performance art project where he ate Koran pages (warning: there is at least one expletive in article): jotdown.es/2015/09/abel-azcona-un-artista-comodo-no-me-vale-no-es-contemporaneo-no-es-nada/
 
How do you steal 200 plus hosts by going to communion? That would take a long time! As some one said, some day his blood may boil.
 
There is a law in Spain, article 525 of the Spanish Penal Code, that is somewhat like a blasphemy law that may serve for just these cases.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law#Spain
The article 525 of the penal law in Spain considers “vilification” of religious “feelings”, “dogmas”, “beliefs” or “rituals”. This extension to “dogmas” and “beliefs” makes it very close to a blasphemy law in practice, depending on the interpretation of the judge.
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For instance, in 2012 it was used to prosecute a famous artist, Javier Krahe, for a scene (shot 34 years ago, and lasting just 54 seconds) in a documentary about him.[111]
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Let’s hope this law isn’t conveniently forgotten in this case. :rolleyes:
 
I can put up with anti-religious or anti-catholic art, at least if it’s tasteful and done well.

This isn’t tasteful, isn’t done well, isn’t clever. The one thing it is is sacrilegious.

However insulting it is - to God more than Catholics, in my view - I like to at least think that God can take care of Himself and is big enough to take the insult. I have never hoped that someone be prosecuted even over “sacrilegious” art (even for crimes against good taste), but this is frankly one instance it’s entirely justified.
 
Crusaderbear said:
How do you steal 200 plus hosts by going to communion? That would take a long time! As some one said, some day his blood may boil.
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Maybe he had a bunch of people doing it at different places. But it would still take forever, even if doing it every day. It makes me wonder if it is a hoax (that the hosts are not actually consecrated). It would be more difficult to steal during daily mass (less attendance easier to spot) and then you would have to store them without them molding (do you think he froze them individually? would some be freezer burnt?). Probably easier buy them from a supplier and just lie about them being consecrated.
 
Crusaderbear said:
How do you steal 200 plus hosts by going to communion? That would take a long time! As some one said, some day his blood may boil.
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I could be wrong but I suspect what he did was, seeing that Twitter photo, is that he got the Hosts by going to Holy Communion, but instead of consuming the Host, he didn’t properly and saved it for his “art.” That is what I’m getting from the CNA article too. Perhaps he went everyday to daily Mass in order to build up the number.
 
jilly4ski said:
Maybe he had a bunch of people doing it at different places. But it would still take forever, even if doing it every day. It makes me wonder if it is a hoax (that the hosts are not actually consecrated). It would be more difficult to steal during daily mass (less attendance easier to spot) and then you would have to store them without them molding (do you think he froze them individually? would some be freezer burnt?). Probably easier buy them from a supplier and just lie about them being consecrated.
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It’s hard to believe that we should love and pray for everyone, especially the ones who do disgusting things. But as Jesus would say, “Father, forgive him, for he knows not what he does…” It’s like the Romans who put the purple robes and crown of thorns on Jesus head and a reed in his had trying to make fun of the “King of the Jews” who was in fact “King of the Universe…” and their OWN PERSONAL, LOVING KING!
 
Why until “Thursday”. The whole thing should be closed by tomorrow if it was today. And the local authorities could do with being charged for neglect and (possible) complicity.
 
Louie1983 said:
Disgusting, this made my blood boil.
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Mine start boiling when they started allowing the laity to handle the sacred particles with their hands. Seems like it was a precursor to all these public displays of desacralization.
 
…there might have been such a time when all the Catholics in the area might have engulfed this ‘exhibition’ and seized the hosts from the hands of the vandal, because in this case, IMO, it would be justified. In the portrayal of ‘Romero’, he walks back into a seized church and collects the hosts from the floor after a soldier moments earlier gunned all the hosts at the altar and they fell onto the floor. All the people follow the Bishop from the street and back into the Church. The second time the soldiers don’t stop him. I hope the people of the Church get those hosts back - every one of them.
 
ProVobis said:
Just books on particle physics.
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The consecrated host is spoken about with such appreciative love and mystical language that it contrasts with this event dramatically. I asked you because you seem passionate about Holy Communion - I don’t take issue with the host being placed in the hands - and would recommend reading some of this saint’s writings.
 
Well, just so long as the museum didn’t do anything to offend Muslims . . . . .
 
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