They reveal a video of a man smashing the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Van Nuys

A man with a covered face destroyed with a brown the face of the image of the Guadalupe’s Virgin in a Van Nuys church. The video of the events caused outrage among the Catholic community.

Father Vito Di Marzio of Santa Isabel Catholic Church was inside the building last Thursday religious when he thought he heard loud knocks outside, as published KTLA .

“ There were like twelve blows that they gave to the virgin . They woke me up, I never thought they were doing something to the [imagen de la] virgin. I thought someone wanted to enter through a door “, said Vito di Marzio, priest of the Isabel Church.

” I went to my window to see what was happening, but there was nothing, “said Di Marzio. The father added that when he saw what had happened, he was speechless. “It was incredible,” he said.

The images from a security camera allowed this Monday morning to confirm what had happened . The Guadalupe mural, which was painted on the exterior of the Van Nuys church ago 35 years as a symbol of unity, it had been shattered.

“Actually, for me, it’s like doing it to your own mother,” Sister Angelie Marie Inoferio told the aforementioned channel. The sister added that she was devastated but instead of being angry, used the act of hatred as a lesson .

Our lady de Guadalupe is not only the greatest religious and cultural symbol of Mexico, as President Andres Manuel López Obrador said in his first official meeting with his counterpart Joe Biden , but also occupies an important place in the faith of all Catholics in Latin America.

“It is a teaching moment for the school. We have to do some kind of repair and give the children, and the whole school, an example of forgiveness, “said Inoferio.

Still, the sister asks the police to find the person responsible of vandalizing the sacred image.

“We cannot judge what is really there inside him, perhaps it is a cry for help, “said Inoferio. “For now, we are praying, hopefully that person one day converts and realizes that what he did was wrong.”

Also the parishioners of the vandalized church in Van Nuys asks to pray for the person who carried out the damage, as reported by