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Thursday, November 06, 2008
By MICHAELANGELO CONTE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
UNION CITY - Two Virgin Mary statues are missing and a family is praying for a miracle that will reunite them with what they described as a neighborhood treasure.

“It’s not only important to me - it’s for everybody,” said a tearful Gladys Rodriguez about the 3-foot statue that disappeared Monday from the front yard of her New York Avenue home.

Found by her son, the statue had sat there for 11 years - undisturbed, she said.

“Please give it back, please,” begged Rodriguez yesterday evening in the drizzle. “We don’t want to get anyone in trouble. We just want it.”

Rodriguez believes the statue turned her son’s life around and each year on his birthday in June scores of neighbors join the family around the statue for a prayer ceremony, she said.

Strangers would often leave flowers, candles, even money beside the statue, Rodriguez said. She would use the money to buy fine garments from Peru for the statue and the baby Jesus in its arms, Rodriguez said.
I subscribe to about a handful of local papers and I woke up to see this in the Jersey Journal. It is so heartbreaking to see the tears and sorrow in the picture of the woman in the newspaper over the loss of her family’s Virgin Mary statue. I hope they find the thieves soon and will pray for the thieves.

In the newspaper the family showed a picture of the statue and it looks like Our Lady of Mt. Carmel.

Peace.
 
We had our Blessed Mother statue stolen from our front yard about ten years ago too. Now we have her in our front window behind glass rather than in the front yard.

My mother’s very large concrete 4ft. Blessed Mother was also stolen from her back yard about 12 years ago.

I don’t get it.
At a neighboring parish, their outdoor Blessed Mother shrine…over 6ft. high was graffitted with spray paint on two different occasions within the last 6 wks… I dont’ get it at all. I hope who ever the culprits are, they either return it or are caught and prosecuted.
But I don’t expect it to happen.
 
stbruno I’m sorry to hear about your statue having been stolen 10 years ago. :mad: And to hear of the large 6ft statue of Our Lady that was graffitted TWICE makes my stomach churn.

I don’t get it either. If you are not a believer then live and let live. I could understand a protest, writing articles on the falsehoods of the Catholic faith but going so far as to steal or desecrate another faiths holy objects is just incomprehensible to me.

I need to pray the rosary or will get myself in a bad mood.

Peace.
 
The Guadalupe statue was stolen from the shrine
in front of our church a few months ago. Instead of letting the shrine, complete with a kneeling Juan Diego, stay empty until a replacement could be ordered, the pastor had the shrine dismantled and removed. So I think it was a shame on two counts.
 
The Guadalupe statue at our church was also stolen a few months ago. Since that time people have donated to have it replaced along with security lights and an alarm to protect it.

The church didn’t make a big thing about it being a hate crime (as some people do about things that happen to them) but it sure looked like it. The statue was fiberglass and had been sawed off leaving the feet. Later the beheaded statue was found with its hands cut off thrown in the creek. I forget if the head ever was found.

Obviously it wasn’t “stolen” to be displayed somewhere.

Very sad, but the support of the community in replacing it was reassuring.
 
That stinks! But thank goodness for the community support. We have a life-size lighted creche displayed on the front lawn of the church at Christmas; Every year I’m surprised that somebody hasn’t walked off with one of the lightweight figures.
 
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