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Monkey Jesus painter Cecilia Giménez dead at 94

Rob Beschizza
Dec 30, 2025
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Cecilia Giménez, who so amazingly botched a restoration of a fresco depicting Jesus Christ that it and she became internationally famous, is dead at 94. The parishioner from Borja, Spain, set out to restore the faded and peeling icon 13 years ago, having gotten permission to do so from the priest. The resulting subject, nicknamed “Monkey Jesus…

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