{"id":83495,"date":"2026-06-10T09:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83495"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:27:09","slug":"a-catholic-mayor-commissioned-statues-of-saints-residents-revolted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/a-catholic-mayor-commissioned-statues-of-saints-residents-revolted\/","title":{"rendered":"A Catholic Mayor Commissioned Statues of Saints. Residents Revolted."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/06\/08\/us\/08nat-quincy-statues\/08nat-quincy-statues-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" alt=\"An image of a bronze statue atop another image of a bronze statue.\" width=\"302\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">As a gleaming new police and fire headquarters took shape last year in Quincy, Mass., Mayor Thomas Koch prepared to unveil what he considered a perfect finishing touch: towering bronze statues of St. Michael and St. Florian, patron saints of emergency responders, to stand at the building\u2019s entrance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Intent on his vision of municipal grandeur, Mr. Koch had not sought approval from voters before he commissioned an artist in Italy to craft the 10-foot figures, at a cost of $850,000 in city funds, and booked their trans-Atlantic passage.\u00a0Their arrival in Quincy, a diverse city of 100,000 just south of Boston, did not go exactly as he had hoped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: As a gleaming new police and fire headquarters took shape last year in Quincy, Mass.,.<\/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-83495","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\/83495","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=83495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83496,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83495\/revisions\/83496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}