Sad spectacle, this Monday afternoon in the small chapel of the hospital of La Rochelle, located rue Saint-Louis. When coming to pray, around 4:30 p.m., Jean-Claude Lartigue, one of the four chaplains of the hospital, “found something wrong”. The cloth of the altar crumpled, covered “of a yellowish liquid”, the tabernacle (piece of furniture that contains the osties) victim of an attempted break-in. And when this retired former caregiver turned his head, he discovered that a life-size statue of Christ had been destroyed, “pulverized” regrets Jean-Claude Lartigue, still in the throes of emotion. Even more serious: next to a forgotten cigarette butt, and a thrown ostia, two bursts of fire, fortunately without consequence. “It is really sad that a place of calm and meditation is touched by such violence.”
