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...years ago began commissioning the best and most extreme moderns he could find to embellish a church at Assy, high in the French Alps. The project has made Assy internationally famous (TIME, June 20, 1949). The church, with all its art works, was consecrated last year by Bishop Auguste Cesbron of Annecy. Last week the bishop had changed his mind about one sculpture...
...Bishop Cesbron had heard complaints about the crucifix over the church's main altar. He motored over to Assy, spent half an hour studying the sculpture, decided that it was "a caricature representing nothing," and ordered it removed...
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