ABC News has reported that a couple who appeared to be devoutly praying at the foot of a statue of a Christian icon, The Madonna turned out to be less devoted and more interested in recharging their cell phone.
Priests at the Milan, Italy church told ABC News that the young South American couple had been coming in to the church for about a month and had spent about an hour in front of the Madonna statue each day. It was when a cleaner noticed a cable from the couple to the back of the statue that the truth came out - they were plugging their cell phone charger into the plug socket at the back of the statue and recharging their phone battery.
The parish priest, Don Antonio Colombo said that he would not bar the couple from continuing to recharge their cell phone, saying that they were a homeless couple, "The church is their house and letting them charge their mobile phone is a bit like giving them a glass of water."'"
Posted to the site on 15th July 2002
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