Berlin, Germany. To restore the Catholic St.-Hedwigs-Cathedral officials have erected a giant iPod advertising alongside the building. The congregation in conjunction with Apple’s advertising agency is thereby ignoring the will of the office for monument regulation, who has forestalled the installation of the ad since March and has yet to approve on the deal.

“Our lawyers have examined the matter thoroughly” says Jörg Reinich, director of AF-FIX “and have decided that this, timely-limited, advertising on scaffoldings is indeed acceptable.”

Photo: Sergej Glanze, Welt

Altogether the iPod ad is going to raise 400,000 Euro ($536,000) of the 1,1 Million Euro ($1,5 Mil) required for the restoration.

It is yet unclear if the office for monument regulation will take the matter to the local court once again or leave the advertising alone.

If this doesn’t grant the iPod eternal blessing what the hell will? (Oh come on… you had this one coming…)