Chimalhuacan, Mexico - A Mexican church claims it has “accidentally” erected the largest baby Jesus statue in the world. Also an accident: The statue’s uncanny resemblance to British singer Phil Collins.
The nearly 22-foot-tall, 2,000-pound giant traveled 12 hours from the city of Chimalhuacán, where it was built for the La EpifanÍa del Señor church in the central Mexican state of Zacatecas, where it now resides.
Priest Humberto Rodriguez tells Central European News he only meant to commission a statue that would “fit the church,” but in so doing he may have created the biggest Jesus/Phil lookalike on the planet.
“There is a space of between 26 feet between the ceiling and the floor and I ordered a statue measuring 21 feet, but I never intended to make it the biggest baby Jesus statue in the world,” he says.
Rodriguez had nothing to say about the statue’s resemblance to Collins, the Genesis frontman and drummer who sported a similar front hair-tuft in the mid-1980s.