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Vandalized, decapitated Jesus statue deemed a total loss by church named for Mother Teresa

By Colin A. Young

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  January 24, 2012

A statue of Jesus was decapitated this weekend outside a Columbia Road church named after Mother Teresa. The Rev. Jack Ahern, of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta at St. Margaret’s church, said when he arrived at the church early Sunday morning, he found the statue without its head and knocked partially off its stand. “The head was to its side in multiple pieces. It’s almost like he whacked the head first, and then pushed it off its base,” Ahern said.

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