Need to ID this statue

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Have you looked all over for identifying marks, even on the bottom, for a name of some kind? Is your church named after a specific Saint? Is there a local patron Saint of some kind? That’s the best I can do.
 
The statue looks to me to be St Maria Goretti. The way she is dressed and the position of her arms, plus the fact she appears to be a young girl; are very similar to the various images of Maria found on Google.
 
bzkoss236 said:
Have you looked all over for identifying marks, even on the bottom, for a name of some kind? Is your church named after a specific Saint? Is there a local patron Saint of some kind? That’s the best I can do.
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We have looked for marks to identify her.
Our church is St. Jude, she’s not Jude!! 🙂
We have mining in the area, a fairly big gold/silver/copper mine here in town that was a very busy mine for years in the late 1800’s and until the 1930’s or 1940’s.
The old church was called Our Lady of Victory and closed quite a few years ago when St. Jude was built, thinking the 60’s or the 70’s.

I haven’t personally seen the bottom of the statue, but will see if someone will lift her up for me so I can check it on Sat. when I go to mass. She’s very pretty and in pretty much pristine shape, doesn’t appear to be really REALLY old at all.
 
I put in another vote for St. Maria Goretti. This statue looks very similar to a picture/painting of her in a book of Saints I had as a child. As you can see in this link, she is often depicted with a shawl, and her arms crossed like that.

google images of St. Maria Goretti:
google.com/search?q=st.+maria+goretti+images&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=EPU&tbo=u&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=VbrUUPCZHeSQ0QGy2oGoCQ&ved=0CDIQsAQ&biw=1440&bih=731

Let us know if you find out for sure!
 
gh4 said:
Google is our friend!!! 🙂

Here is a statue of St. Maria Goretti that is for sale. Looks the same to me!
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This is from:
kingrichards.com/printProduct.php?item=9522
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The mold is identical, the painting of the dress and shawl are different. The one you pictured must have had the same fabric lillies at some point, and they were lost or misplaced. What led me to believe it was Maria Goretti, is that the parish of my youth was named after her, so I was exposed to numerous images of her. To confirm my suspicions, I checked Google images. I’d say that your mystery is solved. 😃
 
Hello. I am a restorer of religious statuary, And i can tell you this. It is a very early 1930s statue of Spanish or Italian origin. I can tell from the pic that it has glass eyes, which means that it was not any ordinary statue. Your church paid a lot of money for it. A practice of statuaries (statue companies) did back then was make “general saints” or saint figures with no symbolism that identifies it as any one saint in particular, so that who it is could be interpreted by the one praying to it. It could portray most any female saint, even the blessed virgin, if you wish. Or it could be a minor European saint. Does your parish have a nationality? For whom and when was it founded? What is this church called?

:rose:Our lady of guadalupe, pray for us:rose:
 
It may be saint Maria goretti. Just a question. Is there a statue of our lady of lourdes in your parish or any local parishes that match this one, (same skin tone, molding around the base, over all quality?)because it may be saint Bernadette of lourdes, and if she is, she probably came with a larger statue of our lady of lourdes, and they may have been split up for some reason when our lady of victory closed. If not, it is probably saint Maria goretti,

:rose:Our lady of Guadalupe, pray for us:rose:
 
arcangel49 said:
It may be saint Maria goretti. Just a question. Is there a statue of our lady of lourdes in your parish or any local parishes that match this one, (same skin tone, molding around the base, over all quality?)because it may be saint Bernadette of lourdes, and if she is, she probably came with a larger statue of our lady of lourdes, and they may have been split up for some reason when our lady of victory closed. If not, it is probably saint Maria goretti,

:rose:Our lady of Guadalupe, pray for us:rose:
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No statue of Our Lady of Lourdes anywhere in our parish. We are the only parish in town. I’m pretty sure it’s St. Maria Goretti. She’s a beautiful statue, I don’t see nicks or cracks or anything like that on her. I’ll have to look very closely at her eyes next week. She stands on a shelf that’s pretty high on the wall, we had her down because the shelf is very crooked and it was supposed to be fixed. Perhaps I can convince someone to loan me a ladder after the holidays while we are taking down the decorations in the church, so I can get closer to her! 🙂

Thanks so much for everyone’s help. 🙂 My priest is very excited that I tracked down the name of this statue. 🙂
 
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