A sculpture depicting the Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus has been destroyed ... The work, titled “Crowning” by Austrian artist Esther Strauss, is no longer on view, and the incident has ...

VATICAN CITY — Vandals have beheaded a sculpture featuring the Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus that had been exhibited in the cathedral in the Austrian city of Linz and drawn criticism from ...

showing Mary sitting on a rock and giving birth. The diocese said it referred to the nativity scene in the cathedral, which is also known as the Mariendom. The artist who created the “crowning ...