Authorities Investigating Mysterious Church Demolition in Tlaxcala Aleteia
go to original August 1, 2015

A historic chapel was mysteriously demolished this week in the Mexican state of Tlaxcala, and nobody knows who was responsible, or why it was done, CNN Mexico reported.

The 18th century Chapel of Santo Cristo in San Pablo del Monte, Tlaxcala, was classified as a historical monument.

Nobody seems to know exactly what happened. The governor of Tlaxcala, Mariano González Zarur, was notified Tuesday afternoon about the demolition and announced a joint investigation by the attorney general's office and the National Institute of Anthropology and History.

The chapel, an example of traditional religious architecture from the colonial period, had elements of masonry walls and buttresses, and a barrel vault and two bell towers added in the nineteenth century.

"The action seems all the more surprising, in that the region is known to be a deeply devout Catholic area, so there is no suggestion that leftists carried out the action," said William Newton, posting at Blog of the Courtier.

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Photo: Government of Mexico

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