HAVANA—More than five decades ago, Fidel Castro's revolution triggered the sweeping seizure of Catholic Church properties in Cuba.
In one expropriation, someone decapitated the statue of Santo Tomás de Villanueva outside the chapel of the Havana university named for the saint. As the Cuban regime turned Villanueva into a trade school, the headless statue became an eerie symbol for a church shorn of influence. Graffiti scarred the walls of the decaying chapel.
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