McNamara's Blog
Put his face on a statue! When the Paulists erected the current building for St. Paul the Apostle in Manhattan, they placed the local Archbishop’s face on one of the statues flanking the front doors of the church. The statue of St. Bonaventure has the face of John Cardinal McCloskey, who was Archbishop of New York from 1864 to 1885. I haven’t been able to determine if any other people are placed on saint statues, although Philip Neri does look suspiciously like Paulist founder Isaac Hecker.
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