Leaders of a New Jersey Catholic Church are asking for the return of a rare religious statue they say was stolen from the alter of their chapel last week.
He then enters the chapel and makes sure the coast is clear before taking the 3.5 foot statue and walking out a side door. "They don’t exit the door they came in so obviously they knew parish and church," Marucci said. "It's incomprehensible that someone would actually take it out of its place of enthronement." For Monsignor Marucci and the parish community, the statue - just one of four in existence - represents a unique and powerful connection to Jesus.
"The monetary value can't even hold a candle to the spiritual and symbolic significance of the image," Monsignor Marucci said. The church planned for a statue to be front-and-center for this Thursday's all-day prayer event in honor of the blessed Virgin Mary's birthday. "I will press charges because in my thought if an intentional crime - sin - needs to be punished," Monsignor Marucci said. "I'm just praying that it gets returned before Thursday, somebody knows where this person lives."
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