Through GoFundMe, they have already raised $1.1 million of their $2.5 million goal. (The Sunday after the shooting, they worshipped in a large outdoor tent nearby.) Preemptively, a San Antonio contractor teamed up with other local business owners to form a nonprofit, Rebuilding Sutherland Springs Inc., to raise money for a new church building and park. Nine of the twenty-six shooting victims were from the Holcombe family.Īlthough the congregation has not yet officially voted on it, it’s likely that the church will be demolished and a new one built in its place the pastor said many congregants do not want to go back in there because of the trauma. Photo: Drew Anthony Smith for the New York Times Baby Holcombe’s pink rose sits between roses for his or her mom Crystal and brother Greg. Temporary memorial, November 12, 2017, First Baptist Church, Sutherland Springs, Texas. The one pink rose among twenty-five red ones is for the unborn child who died with his or her eight-months-pregnant mother. A temporary memorial has been erected, consisting of white folding chairs that bear the names of the victims in gold paint as well as roses with chiffon ribbons. In the week between, volunteers came in and repaired all the bullet holes, ripped up the carpet and tore out the pews, and applied fresh coats of white paint to the walls and concrete floor. White-chair memorial inside Sutherland Springs church opens to public before demolition: First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, reopened to the public on Sunday evening for the first time since a mass shooting on November 5 killed twenty-six people attending worship. Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452–1519), Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World), ca. It’s one of only twenty known paintings attributed to Leonardo. He painted it around 1500 for King Louis XII of France, but it was presumed lost until 2005-“the biggest discovery of the 21st century,” said Christie’s. (It displaced by a long shot Picasso’s Women of Algiers, which sold for $179.4 million at auction in 2015, and the reported $300 million paid privately for Gauguin’s Nafea Faa Ipoipo?, also in 2015.) A common iconographic subject in the sixteenth century, “Salvator Mundi” translates as “Savior of the World” Leonardo’s shows Christ in Renaissance dress, holding a crystal orb in his left hand (representative of Earth) and raising his right hand in benediction.
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