IT HAS RETURNED! Statue of Jesus is back in garden outside St. Anselm Church
Vandal had splattered it with red paint
A statue of Jesus Christ that a vandal had covered with red paint last month is back in the garden outside Saint Anselm Catholic Church in Bay Ridge and parishioners are saying prayers of gratitude.
“We were very lucky that the paint came off,” Dan Texeira, president of the St. Anselm Parish Pastoral Planning Council, told the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on Wednesday. “We thought the paint had soaked through and ruined the statue. We thought we would have to commission a new statue. But we hired a company that specializes in statue restoration and they were able to clean the paint off,” he said.
The statue was returned to its perch over looking the corner of 82nd Street and Fourth Avenue a few days ago.