Abandoned church statues find a new home in Ohio

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Dan Barry

OHIO -- Mr. [Lou] McClung, a makeup artist by trade, has become a sort of patron saint of religious statues left behind. He gathers them in a shuttered Catholic church that he owns, then restores them to their former ethereal state - to when people seeking intervention gazed with hope into their glass eyes. "It's a calling," says Mr. McClung, whose rescue mission provides one answer to an awkward question: Where do the religious statues go once their churches close? [link]