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Panama City, Panama, Aug 16, 2012 \/ 04:02 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- President Ricardo Martinelli of Panama said that a new statue of Santa Maria la Antigua will be the largest one ever made of the country's patroness.<\/p>\n

\tIn a public ceremony on Aug. 14, Martinelli said the statue of the Virgin Mary will be erected on the coast in Panama City and will rise 100 meters \u2013 seven more than the Statue of Liberty in New York.<\/p>\n

\tThe project is part of the 500th anniversary in 2013 of the discovery of the \u201cSouth Sea,\u201d the name first given to the Pacific Ocean by Spanish explorers, and the creation of the first diocese on South American soil.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIt will be an icon of this city for the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the South Sea and for the first Catholic church on land,\u201d President Martinelli said.<\/p>\n

\tWhile he did not say when construction of the monument would begin, he said both public and private funds would be used to finance the project.<\/p>\n

\tOn Sept. 9, 1513, Pope Leo X created the first South American diocese in what was once the city of Santa Maria la Antigua de Darien. The city was founded three years earlier by Vasco Nunez de Balboa and Martin Fernandez de Enciso on land that is now part of Colombia.<\/p>\n

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