It’s all due to the unfortunate placement of the bread
A new statue of Saint Martin de Porres unveiled at Blackfriars Priory, a Catholic school in Adelaide Australia has been covered up after concerns were raised by the suggestive nature of the statue. The statue depicts the Saint handing out a loaf of bread to a kneeling boy but the placement of the bread is deemed to have other connotations – sex and child sexual abuse. The school has since apologised and said it will recommission the statue to be redesigned.
Simon Cobiac, the principal, said concept plans for the statue, which was produced by a sculptor in Vietnam, were viewed and approved by the school’s executive team in May
“But upon arrival, the three-dimensional statue was deemed by the executive to be potentially suggestive,” Cobiac said in a statement on Wednesday
“As a consequence, the statue was immediately covered and a local sculptor has been commissioned to re-design it.”
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