Media reports said that the Vice Mayor of Realengo, Edmar Peixoto, had informed the police that Menezes left a strange note at the school saying that he was dying of AIDS. The note was given to authorities at 12:50 local time and has not been released to the press until later in the evening.
Better visibility is the chief, and almost the only, alteration to the strange and wonderful arrangements of works, notably of School of Paris modern masters, left by Barnes, who died in 1951, at the age of seventy-nine.
According to news articles, by last December Catholic school officials had alerted the diocese and Finn to what they saw as the strange behavior of Rev.