Turns out, it was a statue of St. Joseph (with, presumably, a young Jesus, since the Joseph we're talking about here was that ...

Apr. 20—Two statues at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 321 N. Virginia St., were found toppled and damaged Friday morning. A statue of the Virgin Mary, which members say is more than 100 years old ...

DOWNINGTOWN, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Police are looking for the people responsible for vandalizing four marble statues outside Saint Joseph's Catholic Church in Downingtown, Pennsylvania.

Just before dawn on Sunday morning, St. Joseph Parish, the second-largest parish in the Archdioceses of Philadelphia, discovered that several religious statues at 338 Manor Avenue had been toppl ...

As Snopes notes, no one knows exactly when the custom of using a St. Joseph statue to help sell a home became popular, but he seems to have reached widespread use in the U.S. around 1990 ...