The figure of Saint Francis of Assisi is on the side of the La Porciúncula Church, in Chapinero. She was accompanied by a deer that had been missing for years.
In the capital there are a large number of monuments dedicated to highlighting or honoring some important figures, among which the statue of Simón Bolívar, La Pola, Banderas, among many others, stand out. Most of these monuments in Bogotá have been vandalized and today it is not completely known what has happened to the missing parts, such as the figure of Saint Francis of Assisi that is located on the side of the La church. Porziuncola.
The Parish of Our Lady of the Angels – La Porciúncula, or simply Parroquia de la Porciúncula, is located on Carrera 11 and Calle 72, next to the Avenida Chile Shopping Center. There is a sculpture of Saint Francis of Assisi that until a few years ago was accompanied by a wolf and a deer, since he is considered the patron saint of animals.
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In March 2012, the parishioners of the La Porciúncula church alerted the father of the church about the absence of the bronze deer that had accompanied the monument to Saint Francis of Assisi since 1983. Apparently, the thieves melted the bronze with some type of acid in order to take the sculpture.
The first police versions indicated that the theft could have been committed by street residents who took the deer to sell it in a china shop. But after 12 years of the vandalism, no details are known about his whereabouts.
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