Completar frases ArtistVersión en línea Fill in the gaps por Oksana Koval 1 terrible Monkey restoration shape devout now vandalism restore economy painting restore Artist Destroys $1 . 4 Million Painting Cecilia Giménez was a churchgoer in the town of Borja . The 81 - year - old Spaniard was also an art lover . After seeing that the 120 - year - old painting on a local church ? s wall was in poor , she picked up a brush and got to work . She began trying to the of Jesus Christ . She liberally applied paint in an attempt to Christ ? s face . The results were . Before and after images of the painting went viral on the internet . The painting of Jesus was now nicknamed Christ or Potato Jesus . She had made the painting of Christ ? s face a laughing stock . At first , people called it . When they found out Cecilia was the perpetrator , they were forgiving and accepted that her intentions were good . Even more surprising , the botched became a tourist magnet . Thousands come to Borja to see Potato Jesus . They stand in line to view it and buy reproductions of it on t - shirts , mugs , and keychains . The tourism it has generated has boosted the small town ? s .