Name That (M)(B)illionaire

Item: Two-meter deep fish tank, filled with Koi carp, cost of $300,000.

• Item: garden. Bill: $917,000. Fun Fact: it was called the “Garden of Silence.”
• Item: hanging an advent wreath. Bill: $25,000. Fun Fact: Workers had to open up the chapel roof — with a crane — to install it.
• Item: heated stones. Bill: $26,000.Fun Fact: They were used to line outdoor paths for more comfortable walking.
• Item: Bronze window frames. Bill: $2.38 million. Fun fact: The cost was supposed to be half that. But he, the report shows, really wanted his window frames to be bronze.
  
• Item: light switches. Bill: $27,000. Fun Fact: Really, they’re just light switches.
• Item: doors. Bill: $673,000. Fun Fact: They were of the “highest quality.”
• Item: art. Bill: $1.6 million. 
• Item: LED lights. Bill: $894,000. Fun Fact: They were built into floors, the walls, underneath steps, inside handrails and window frames — which were of course 

Multiple choice.  Was it:

A.  Bill Gates

B.  Warren Buffet

C.   Carlos Slim Helu
D.  None of the above

Answer:

Bishop (Blimg-bling) Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst of Limburg, Germany. See story

Total cost of luxury renovation?  $43 million.

Getting fired by Pope Francis?  PRICELESS

So how about us this Lenten Season.  Can we pass the show-me-your-checkbook-and-your-day planner-and-I'll-show-you-your-values-sniff test?

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” ~ Hans Hofmann