Divine Child Parish Sanctuary
Pilgrimage church holding a hand-carved infant Jesus statue drawing thousands to open-air Sunday masses.
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This guide to the Divine Child Parish Sanctuary in Bogotá turns on 1935, when an Italian priest named Juan del Rizzo walked into a religious art shop and asked a sculptor to remake a plaster infant Jesus, stripping away its miniature cross for open, upturned hands. You'll hear who del Rizzo was, a Salesian priest who had crossed the Atlantic decades earlier, and how that one request took root in this Bogotá neighborhood. Best heard on a Sunday morning, when the plaza outside fills long before the doors do.
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