Stolen head from statue of Christ is returned, orange replacement removed
SUDBURY, Ont. — The missing head of a statue of baby Jesus has been returned, and the bright orange clay head that replaced it has been removed.
Gerard Lajeunesse, the priest at the Ste. Anne des Pins parish in Sudbury, Ont., says the head was returned to him on Friday.
The statue had recently been fitted with the temporary clay head — topped with a spiky orange crown — crafted by a local artist, which garnered international attention and was compared online to a character on “The Simpsons” or to the infamously botched restoration of a fresco of Jesus in Spain.
Lajeunesse says the stolen head was returned to him on Friday, by a woman he knew.