{"id":81264,"date":"2026-03-11T09:37:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81264"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:37:47","slug":"priest-makes-plea-after-mother-mary-statue-stolen-from-rochester-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/priest-makes-plea-after-mother-mary-statue-stolen-from-rochester-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Priest Makes Plea After Mother Mary Statue Stolen From Rochester Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>WHAM<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-mia3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t39.30808-6\/649181785_26026550360328879_7921424429257014366_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpegr_s590x590_tt6&amp;_nc_cat=106&amp;ccb=1-7&amp;_nc_sid=7b2446&amp;_nc_ohc=XeWMqCSA2s8Q7kNvwEKFKkc&amp;_nc_oc=AdkDSAm24wHqAg2ijMWcaTThvDPgAERc8VXObgqlTK24IvSKXl9BMY77J18Gwr7HPnFvXCOQSruJc24MDjpJGigG&amp;_nc_zt=23&amp;se=-1&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-mia3-1.xx&amp;_nc_gid=1Eku7w49XVhs11ZpZr41uw&amp;_nc_ss=8&amp;oh=00_Afx8dXEXtsxMykGuZ8738PwnfLK2jk_yVilBYrSdFAUnxQ&amp;oe=69B72D89\" width=\"265\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Father William Coffas, pastor of Holy Cross Church on Lake Avenue, said a statue of the Virgin Mary was taken from the grotto on church property over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t explain this,&#8221; Coffas said. &#8220;Why would somebody want to do this?&#8221; &#8220;We would ask that the statue please be returned as soon as possible,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And we also pray, most importantly, for the person who was under the conviction that they decided to steal the statue. Obviously, we cannot steal \u2014 that&#8217;s one of the commandments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1773221867\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Priest Makes Plea After Mother Mary Statue Stolen From Rochester Church\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WHAM: Father William Coffas, pastor of Holy Cross Church on Lake Avenue, said a statue of the Virgin Mary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}