LABRADOR, PANGASINAN – A century-old wooden image of the Virgin Mary has been stolen from the Catholic Church here, while another one was decapitated in a daring robbery in this sleepy coastal town.
Fr. Jim Sjeehy, parish priest here, said that he discovered the wooden image missing when he opened the church for the first mass at 5:30 this morning.
“The thieves may have come early dawn, when we were deep in our sleep,” Sjeehy, an Irish Columban, said.
“This could have only been done by people who are selfish and who do not fear God,” he said.
