One had part of the head removed, another had a hand removed, and others were knocked down. "And it's all the image or the statues of our Blessed Mother Mary with different titles," Berjuega said.

“Always knocks the head off.” A statue of the Our Lady of Guadalupe, which is a depiction of the Virgin Mary, was destroyed around 5 a.m. outside of a Guadalupe Clinic in Wichita.

“Always knocks the head off.” A statue of the Our Lady of Guadalupe, which is a depiction of the Virgin Mary, was destroyed around 5 a.m. outside of a Guadalupe Clinic in Wichita.

He also repeatedly struck the statue’s head with the rock. The Rev. Victor Bolaños, pastor of Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, managed to recover the broken-off hands, which were ...

A vandal broke this statue of the Virgin Mary that has long been set inside a hollow part of a tree in Trenton. (L.A. Parker/The Trentonian) The head and torso of the Virgin Mary remained intact.

Paul Laborde Jr., a registered sex offender who also pleaded guilty to killing his own father, returned to a Metairie Catholic church three times to damage a Virgin Mary statue, authorities said.

Theologian Martina Resch put it well: In ‘crowning,’ Mary gets her body back. Whoever removed the head of the sculpture acted very brutally.

The two statues — one of the Virgin Mary and one of the church’s namesake — were broken by a vandal before dawn on Tuesday, Oct. 22, the church said in an Oct. 24 Facebook post.