By: P.T., STA
Brezje, Slovenia’s main pilgrimage site, has responded to the latest cover of the weekly Mladina depicting an altered image of the 1817 painting of Mary and Jesus that is cherished in Brezje (NW).
The head of the pilgrimage site, Robert Bahčič, said this was an “inadmissible insult of religious feelings of Christian believers”. The 200-year-old painting Mary Help of Christians by Leopold Layer has been a symbol of profound religion of Slovenians for years, offering consolation and hope to Brezje pilgrims, Bahčič said in a press release, noting it was inadmissible to alter the famous art work.