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MineralMan

(146,318 posts)
Wed Sep 5, 2018, 02:38 PM Sep 2018

Sacre Bleu! Outrage at Lourdes!

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

Artist is arrested for stripping NAKED at French Catholic pilgrimage site

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.

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Sacre Bleu! Outrage at Lourdes! (Original Post) MineralMan Sep 2018 OP
NOW, that is a statement worthy of sharing. saidsimplesimon Sep 2018 #1
Notice that she's copying the pose of the statue of MineralMan Sep 2018 #2
Did AG Ashcroft, under Bush saidsimplesimon Sep 2018 #7
Why, yes he did, the old coot. MineralMan Sep 2018 #8
I never get arrested Cartoonist Sep 2018 #3
In my naked in public dreams, nobody even notices. MineralMan Sep 2018 #6
I'm usually flying when... NeoGreen Sep 2018 #9
Outraged, eh? Act_of_Reparation Sep 2018 #4
Apparently, she was arrested. MineralMan Sep 2018 #5
You wouldn't have thought... NeoGreen Sep 2018 #10
Nobody wants to see me naked, I assure you. MineralMan Sep 2018 #11
That was kind of the point of... NeoGreen Sep 2018 #12
I got it...really... MineralMan Sep 2018 #14
All good... NeoGreen Sep 2018 #16
Robbing the faithful/gullible is fine TlalocW Sep 2018 #13
Oddly enough, there's plenty of nudity in church art. MineralMan Sep 2018 #15
Was her intent to bare her soul? eom guillaumeb Sep 2018 #17
I don't know, but her soles were bare. MineralMan Sep 2018 #18
I found it to be funny, guillaumeb Sep 2018 #19
Well, some at least. MineralMan Sep 2018 #20

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
1. NOW, that is a statement worthy of sharing.
Wed Sep 5, 2018, 02:43 PM
Sep 2018

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

(146,318 posts)
2. Notice that she's copying the pose of the statue of
Wed Sep 5, 2018, 02:45 PM
Sep 2018

Our Lady of Lourdes above. Seems reverent enough for me.

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
7. Did AG Ashcroft, under Bush
Wed Sep 5, 2018, 02:58 PM
Sep 2018

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

(146,318 posts)
8. Why, yes he did, the old coot.
Wed Sep 5, 2018, 03:00 PM
Sep 2018

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

(7,319 posts)
3. I never get arrested
Wed Sep 5, 2018, 02:46 PM
Sep 2018

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.

NeoGreen

(4,031 posts)
9. I'm usually flying when...
Wed Sep 5, 2018, 03:06 PM
Sep 2018

...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)
4. Outraged, eh?
Wed Sep 5, 2018, 02:53 PM
Sep 2018

I wonder where said outrage ranks in comparison to, say, robbing women and girls of their right to reproductive health.

MineralMan

(146,318 posts)
5. Apparently, she was arrested.
Wed Sep 5, 2018, 02:55 PM
Sep 2018

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

(4,031 posts)
10. You wouldn't have thought...
Wed Sep 5, 2018, 03:08 PM
Sep 2018

...to join in on the performance art?



If people were upset when SHE did it... (just sayin')

NeoGreen

(4,031 posts)
12. That was kind of the point of...
Wed Sep 5, 2018, 03:11 PM
Sep 2018

..my joke.

I guess it is a good thing I'm not a comedian by profession.

MineralMan

(146,318 posts)
15. Oddly enough, there's plenty of nudity in church art.
Wed Sep 5, 2018, 03:15 PM
Sep 2018

I guess performance art is different though...

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