Farbrizia Raguso spent two decades in the Rupnik-associated Loyola Community, where she says that Rupnik spiritually and psychologically abused her. She told The Pillar that: “The experience of standing before [Rupnik] mosaics brings a feeling of inner invasion. Because of the insistent use of gold and harsh colors; the size of the figures; the unsettling feeling caused by their black, bottomless eyes; and also, in some cases, by their bodily postures. … We do not feel welcomed as we should, as we do before the authentic art of Byzantine icons, which allow us to enter into a spirit of deep prayer.”