Chapel targeted: Cross broken off

Country: Poland

Date of incident: April 4, 2023


On the night of April 4-5, 2023, the chapel of St. John of Nepomuk located at Odmętowa Street in Krakow was targeted by vandals. They tore off the cross held in the hands of the statue of the saint, thereby damaging the hand of the statue.

This was the latest devastation of the chapel. Around the year 2000, vandals tore off part of Saint John's hand and threw the cross into a nearby reservoir. 

Source: gazeta Krakowska

Picture: Laboratorium Wolnosci Religijnej