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Aug 23, 2012, 10:49 AM | Updated: Oct 11, 2024, 1:11 pm

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An elderly woman in Spain tried to restore a 100-year-old fresco painting on a church without permission, and the results were hilariously awful.

The painting on the wall of a church in Spain was deteriorating, and an elderly woman in her 80s decided to take matters into her own hands and fix it. But as you can see in the image above, she ended up making Jesus look like a monkey.

Read the whole story at the New York Times.

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