The placement of the angelic figures establishes the recognition of the public that Thecla's actions and her miraculous salvation from multiple attempted slaughters were sanctioned and facilitated by a higher power based upon her unshakable faith.
Nobody had been killed, but the paranoia surrounding the protest explains why Father Tapu may have thought they had; various Facebook groups for the movement are saturated with rumors about riot cops attempting to slaughter everyone in attendance.
This week, three right-wing extremists were found guilty of attempting to slaughter Muslim refugees living in an apartment complex in Kansas ― they too were radicalized by online anti-Muslim memes, online propaganda masquerading as news and conspiracy theories of the kind Bissonnette consumed.
Despite Mexico's attempts, slaughtering or "culling" animals isn't effective -- it provides only short-term solutions, at best.
His filmography reads like the rap sheet of man (and, more often, woman) slaughter, imagined, attempted and occasionally realized: "Throw Momma From the Train," "Drowning Mona," "Death to Smoochy," "The War of the Roses".
So it has proved for a year now in the Syria of Bashar al-Assad who, taking a leaf from his father's book, has attempted to suppress through mass slaughter the quest of a broad uprising to be free of the family stranglehold.
It was an indiscriminate attempt to slaughter, irrespective of any considerations for age, for class, for religion, or whatever.
He is a Nobel-winning sacred cow of contemporary literature, and any attempts to slaughter him must be made in the face of received and popular opinion.
The Indian government depicted the attack on Parliament as a foiled attempt to slaughter the elected leadership of the world's largest democracy.
