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A Rochester, Minnesota, Catholic cemetery was vandalized on Halloween night with Satanic and vulgar graffiti.
Bishop Robert Barron has pledged to reconsecrate a Catholic Minnesota cemetery vandalized on Halloween night with Satanic and vulgar graffiti.
“On this feast of All Souls, when the Church honors our beloved dead, I would like to express my outrage at this desecration and my assurance of prayers for the families of those whose final resting places were so dishonored,” Bishop Barron, the head of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, said in a Nov. 2 statement on Twitter.
Steven Flynn, director of the diocese’s Calvary Cemetery in Rochester, told CNA that five memorial walls in the cemetery were heavily covered with blue and brown graffiti. He also said that two grave markers, a statue of Christ and a cross were covered in graffiti. The cleanup and repair costs could go as high as $8,000, Flynn estimated.
Photos of the graffiti show vulgar messages and the words “In Satan we trust.”
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Bishop Barron Expresses ‘Outrage,’ Vows to Reconsecrate Vandalized Cemetery
Bishop Robert Barron has pledged to reconsecrate a Catholic Minnesota cemetery vandalized on Halloween night with Satanic and vulgar graffiti.
“On this feast of All Souls, when the Church honors our beloved dead, I would like to express my outrage at this desecration and my assurance of prayers for the families of those whose final resting places were so dishonored,” Bishop Barron, the head of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, said in a Nov. 2 statement on Twitter.
Steven Flynn, director of the diocese’s Calvary Cemetery in Rochester, told CNA that five memorial walls in the cemetery were heavily covered with blue and brown graffiti. He also said that two grave markers, a statue of Christ and a cross were covered in graffiti. The cleanup and repair costs could go as high as $8,000, Flynn estimated.
Photos of the graffiti show vulgar messages and the words “In Satan we trust.”
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Bishop Barron Expresses ‘Outrage,’ Vows to Reconsecrate Vandalized Cemetery
