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Date: November 24, 2019 09:23AM
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/jesus-statue-phil-collins-trnd/index.htmlA church in Zacatecas, Mexico, commissioned what it calls the largest statue of baby Jesus in the world. But the internet is hung up on how eerily similar it looks to a certain '80s frontman.
No, this towering, nearly 22-foot statue of the Son of God that presides over the Parish of the Epiphany of the Lord was not modeled after Phil Collins. Insert Genesis/Book of Genesis pun here.
Rev. Humberto Rodriguez told CNN he didn't set out to create the largest-ever sculpture of the Son of God.
"It is an unprecedented work," he said.
No one knows what Jesus of Nazareth looked like -- but we do know what people in the eastern Mediterranean looked like in the first century AD:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayum_mummy_portraits