The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is challenging a city mayor’s plan to erect statues of two Catholic ...

A model of St. Florian, one of the patron saint statues planned to be installed ... because they were forward thinkers of freedom of speech, women’s rights and so on.” Walker said the statues are ...

but it is two statues being sculpted for the front that are generating hundreds of comments. They are of St. Michael and St. Florian. They are the patron saints of the police department and fire ...

The $850,000 statues are 98.9% paid for, according to a contract document that itemizes expenses. St. Michael and St. Florian are the patron saints of police officers and firefighters respectively.