The face of an angel that was restored to resemble one of President Donald Trump’s closest allies in Europe has been scrubbed off a fresco at a church in Rome after both the Vatican and the Roman diocese headed by Pope Leo XIV ordered its removal.
An Italian newspaper sparked an uproar over the weekend when it noticed that a newly restored fresco at the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina in downtown Rome suddenly featured an angel that looked suspiciously like Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy party.
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