Catholics pray to St. Anthony when they’ve lost something, but what if it’s a St. Anthony statue that is lost?<\/p>\n
Someone who stole a |4\u00bd-foot St. Anthony statue this weekend from a secluded limestone chapel at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay apparently put some labor into the theft.<\/p>\n
Police could see where something heavy was dragged on the gravel and wood-chip path from LeMieux Chapel in Cofrin Memorial Arboretum on the UWGB campus. The 12-by-18-foot chapel is unlocked. <\/p>\n
Campus police Lt. Keith Rosin said the statue may have been dumped in the woods, but it has not been found. <\/p>\n
The theft was discovered Sunday morning, said Joan Jadin, whose family takes care of the chapel, built in about 1925 by stonemason Joseph LeMieux and his brother-in-law, Fabian LaPlant, a carpenter. <\/p>\n
It may have been taken on Saturday, the Feast Day of St. Anthony, she said.<\/p>\n
Jadin noted the irony that St. Anthony is the Catholic patron saint of lost items.<\/p>\n