Hideous altar junked after storm of worldwide protest

The Archbishopric of Seville removes the hideous altar table placed in Santa Clara last week

The Archbishopric of Seville has announced that it will remove the "controversial" altar table from the recently restored church of Santa Clara. The table presented a style that, at first glance, clashed with the Renaissance, Baroque and even some Gothic elements that prevail in the church. The social networks were filled with messages against the table.

The shortest lived altar in the history of the Catholic Church. 

Hopefully, it will be dropped in the car park on its way out.

The controversial table has been designed by the architectural studio of Pablo Millán (originally from Jaén but with many years of residence in Seville) after being commissioned by the Archbishopric of Seville, which has undertaken the restoration of the temple (with significant municipal aid), for which it has taken two years of work.

According to what the architect published on his Facebook profile, it is "a Franciscan altar" and "one of the most exciting commissions we have been given to date: to design, build and assemble a stone altar for the Royal Monastery of Santa Clara in Seville". It should be remembered that Saint Francis of Assisi (together with Saint Clare) was the founder of the Poor Clares, the order that governed this convent. According to Pablo Millán, the table is the result of a "great work of stonemasonry".

During the blessing Mass celebrated last Friday 10 February by Monsignor Saiz, a golden table with Solomonic columns was used.

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Cathcon: There are said to be 271,602 physical churches in the world.  One nave altar gone, 271,601 to go.

After that Mass can be said facing East; it is a vain and modernistic clericalism that wants its face seen at every Mass. 

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