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20—Two statues at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 321 N. Virginia St., were ... Hughes said the statue of Mary once stood in front of Nazareth Catholic Academy, a Native girls' boarding school.
St. Patrick is back atop his pedestal at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, albeit headless. His marble torso has been reattached to the feet after vandals knocked down the statue the weekend of June 20.
Two of the statues – one of St. Joseph and one of St. Anthony – located in the front of the church were destroyed. Other statues in the back of the church were damaged. Someone pushed a statue ...
St. Joseph, in statue form ... the Holy Family in Nazareth and Jesus Blessing the Children. The three-year restoration and renovation project of this church that replaced the original was carried ...
The statue was required to be buried by a church law stating that any decommissioned sacred artifacts must be buried, burned, or destroyed, he said. The original St. Joseph Church was built in the ...
DOWNINGTOWN, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Police are looking for the people responsible for vandalizing four marble statues outside Saint Joseph's Catholic Church in Downingtown, Pennsylvania.
In front of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, statues of St. Ann and St. Francis have damage but are upright again, while two others lay toppled at its nearby family center after vandals shoved them ...
"Shortly after the birth of Jesus, Joseph and Mary were forced to flee with their young son from Nazareth to Egypt to escape King Herod, a tyrant," Karen Clark Ristine, the church's senior ...
"The hands were cut off," Sister Guillet said, adding that the damage to that statue has not been repaired. The church has suffered from minor vandalism over the years, but nothing like the damage ...
After two years of an empty shrine across North Broad Street from St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, the new statue arrived Wednesday to replace the old one destroyed in September 2010 by vandals.