QUINCY ‒ The legal controversy over two, 10-foot-tall bronze saint statues, the patron saints of police and firefighters, purchased by MayorTom Koch for an estimated $850,000 is heading for a showdown at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
In San Fernando, a completely covered Chavez statue was pulled off its pedestal and put into storage ... But statues including one in downtown Los Angeles, south of Olvera Street, were eventually taken down.
The debate intensified as many still held a high regard for the Franciscan priest canonised in 2015, but statues, including one in downtown Los Angeles south of Olvera Street, were taken down.