This combination of two undated handout photos made available by the Centro de estudios Borjanos shows the 20th century Ecce Homo-style fresco of Christ before (left) and after (right) an elderly amateur artist Celia Gimenez, 80, took it upon herself to restore it in the church of the northern Spanish agricultural town of Borja. The incident made national news and was an Internet trending topic Thursday Aug 23 2012 with some Twitter users dubbing it ‘Ecce Mono’, meaning ‘Behold the Monkey’ instead of ‘Behold Man.’

File this one under no good deed goes unpunished.

The AP reports:

A small Spanish town is trying to
figure out what to do with a
20th-century painting of Christ that
has been disfigured by a local artist
who took it upon herself to restore
it.

Juan Maria Ojeda, an official in Borja
town, said 80-year-old Celia Gimenez
decided to touch up the fresco of
Christ wearing a crown of thorns in
the Misericordia church because she
thought it need restoration. He said
no one realized how badly disfigured
the painting was until she rang town
hall to say what she had done.

The fate of the painting has made
national news in Spain.

The fresco is of the genre known as
“Ecce Homo” style (“Behold the Man”).
But on Thursday some Twitter users
were dubbing it “Ecce Mono” (“Behold

> the Monkey”).