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orchdork
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Posted: June 02 2007 at 9:53am \| IP Logged

I hope I have posted the question in the proper forum.

Our family has started a Blessed Mother garden-area. We all have different ideas about what kind of statue we want to place there.
I am hoping you ladies have ideas, resources and photos to help us make our decision.

Thank you!!

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Posted: June 02 2007 at 10:11am \| IP Logged

I have not found a statue I like. I love the old fashioned cement ones, but can't seem to find them any more.

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Posted: June 02 2007 at 10:37am \| IP Logged

I miss the cement ones too. Where I grew up they were the norm and very affordable. I've had to settle for what I can afford. We got ours from Catholic Supply in St. Louis.

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Posted: June 02 2007 at 11:34am \| IP Logged

I like to brag about mine......we have a 5'marble statue we got for free. There is a thread somewhere on these forums about her. Jenn can you link to it? I know Jeannette or Tim posted her picture.

Check Freecycle, Craigslist, and local flea markets and antique stores. I know several families who have found some real beauties this way.

I have a friend who found a 2' Our Lady of Guadalupe at Wal-Mart. She was only 50.00 and quite nice for a Wal-Mart product.

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Posted: June 02 2007 at 11:42am \| IP Logged

chicken lady wrote:

I like to brag about mine......we have a 5'marble statue we got for free. There is a thread somewhere on these forums about her. Jenn can you link to it? I know Jeannette or Tim posted her picture.

Sure can. She's so lovely. Mary Statue.

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Posted: June 02 2007 at 6:07pm \| IP Logged

We have found nice Guadalupe, OL-Grace and st. francis at those "garden-statuary" stores......where they sell fountains and cement and stone benches, etc. VERY reasonable prices; we were very surpised.

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Posted: June 03 2007 at 4:21pm \| IP Logged

We have one from Terry's Village that we really like. Hopefully this link will work:

Blessed Virgin Mary

If not, go to Terry's Village and do a search for Blessed Virgin.

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Posted: June 06 2007 at 8:50am \| IP Logged

Even though we live in the South, which heavily protestant, esp evangelical, our local Ace Hardware sells Mary and St. Francis statues, even had a Sacred heart last month! I've been holding out b/c we're moving in a few weeks, don't need something heavy to worry about breaking LOL! But I want to do a Mary garden in our new home.
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