The Knights of Columbus, the world’s largest Catholic fraternal group, has covered up defining features of the mosaics in its Washington D.C. shrine after the famous ex-Jesuit artist who designed them was accused of abusing women.
The Rev. Marko Rupnik’s mosaics depicting biblical scenes, saints and the Virgin Mary that grace the walls of Luminous Mysteries Chapel are seen covered with paper at Saint John Paul II National Shrine, Tuesday, July 23, 2024, in Washington. The influential charitable organization announced earlier this month that it was covering the works as a sign of solidarity with victims of abuse. The Rev.
The Knights’ announcement that they were going to cover them up marked the first such move by a major church, organization or diocese. They said they would cover the mosaics at its Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington and chapel at its New Haven, Connecticut, headquarters initially in paper, until the custom-made fabric draping that has been ordered arrives.
“What made me take this decision with peace and tranquility was learning that an artist was abused by Rupnik precisely as he worked, precisely as his hands created the scenes of salvation,” she told the Associated Press last month in Rome. “And for me this was so important: I realized that it wasn’t right to keep these works — works that at their origin had negative energy, energy of abuse — where people go to pray.
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