Center City church burglarized as gold, jeweled crown stolen off Mary statue. ... "It means a lot, that’s the blessed mother of Christ, so we really pray to her on that alter," said Carvajal.

The vandal used a rock from the parish garden to “repeatedly strike” a statue of the Blessed Mother outside the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Jamaica, Queens, this week.

The statue is one of only four Blessed Mother statues of its likeness in the world. ... “They dipped the bullet into gold and inserted it in her crown,” Marucci said.

Susan Kraus, a sacristan at St. Hyacinth Parish reads a description of Mary from Revelation 12, describing the Blessed Mother as standing on the moon, wearing a crown with 12 stars. May 2024 ...

‘Evil’: Century-old Blessed Mother statue destroyed at Brooklyn church by: Cory McGinnis. Posted: Oct 24, 2024 / 06:12 PM EDT. Updated: Oct 24, 2024 / 07:15 PM EDT.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — A man was caught on video knocking over the Blessed Mother statue at the St. Rose of Lima Church in Buffalo Wednesday. In a video posted on social media, you can see the ...