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How a village of 7 residents mobilized hundreds to restore altarpiece of its small church

Altarpiece of St. Euphemia Church in Terradillos de Sedano (Burgos, Spain) / Cultural Association of Santa Eufemia de TerradillosTerradillos de Sedano, Aug 5, 2022 / 04:00 am (CNA).A crowdfunding campaign through the Hispania Nostra Foundation has raised the necessary funds to restore the 16th-century altarpiece threatened with ruin in a small village in northern Spain where only seven residents live throughout the year.Terradillos de Sedano is a small group of homes in the San Antón river valley in Burgos Province in northern Spain. Its few inhabitants had been longing for years for the restoration of the altarpiece of the church dedicated to St. Euphemia, a fourth-century martyr who was a victim of the persecutions ordered by Emperor Diocletian.The villagers tried to raise funds through raffles and selling lottery tickets and calendars, but with the few funds they collected, it would have taken "seven or eight years and the altarpiece could be lost," Nieves Martínez, one

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