The beautiful and talented actress Paz Vega has men all over the world yelling out Hallelujah after some very steamy photos surfaced the web. The actress posed kneeling in prayer to La Virgen de la Encarnación de Gerena in her native Sevilla, Spain, wearing nothing but a see-through veil.
The "holy" pictures were taken for the 2012 calendar of Lambertz, a German-based chocolate company and were debuted at the beginning of December in Berlin. Yet not everyone is praising the actress: many citizens in Sevilla are outraged over the less than saintly images taken in front of La Virgen.
The small town of Gerena is especially livid at the actress, calling the photos blasphemous and in bad taste. The Brotherhood of Gerena has yet to make a comment and many are wondering why they even let these pictures be taken in the first place. Vega has defended herself by explaining that these are supposed to be artistic images but people are just not buying it.
Manuel Riena, a manufacturer of Gerena has said,
"If they were looking for attention, they certainly have it, and they have made sure people are talking about it."
Another local Gerena student, Dolores Zamora stated,
"It looks like this woman doesn't know what to do to make headlines, and its sad that there are certain Spanish actresses that only know how to show their breasts."
Whether people hate it or love it, they are definitely talking about it and it doesn't seem like the discussion will end anytime soon.