From the Article:
Most of us know the sordid story of the lovelorn Van Gogh sending a nasty Valentine (his ear) to a floozy he hopelessly pursued.
Yet Van Gogh’s original heartbreak didn’t come from a French prostitute, but from the church.
The frayed narrative of Van Gogh’s crummy love life and repeated rejection at the hands of les femmes, ignores his original great passion in life – the ministry of Jesus Christ (or Jezus Christus in Dutch).
Vincent was a socially progressive and idealistic young pastor who
clashed with the rigid respectability of the Dutch Reformed Church in
1878. Ministering to starving miners and roughnecks, he suffered along
in complete solidarity – ill-fed, dirty, cold and ugly. The church at
the time didn’t much care for his scandalous empathy and abruptly cut
off all support.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/vincent-van-gogh-was-crazy-for-christ/
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