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21 sty 2014 · Last Thursday, lightning struck Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Christ the Redeemer statue, breaking off a piece of the right thumb and damaging the head.
14 lut 2023 · Lightning struck Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Christ the Redeemer monument, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, and a photographer managed to capture the precise moment.
14 lut 2023 · The once-in-a-lifetime photograph, which has gone viral on social media, shows a bolt of lightning hitting the head of the nearly 100-foot-tall statue — the largest depiction of Jesus in the...
7 mar 2023 · In fact, lightning struck right before the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, damaging the statue’s head and a fingertip. Officials rushed to repair it before the first game kicked off in Rio.
The Art Deco statue Cristo Redentor was gifted to the city by the Catholic Circle of Rio in the 1920s. Perched 125-metres above the city, it is a dramatic and extremely exposed figure.
14 lut 2023 · The Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro was dedicated on Oct. 12, 1931, the feast of Our Lady Aparecida, patroness of Brazil. Shot of statue in Brazil being struck by lightning.
16 lut 2023 · On Feb. 11, 2023, a photo of the Brazilian statue known as Christ the Redeemer began to go viral across platforms. It showed the statue being struck by lightning the night before.
