Stolen St. Francis Statue Made Over

St. Francis may have been from Assisi, but according to Mary Jo Paul, he wasn’t a sissy. In a letter to the editor published Aug. 13 in the Chronicle, she warned the thieves who stole her 2-foot, roughly 50-pound terra cotta statue of St. Francis to watch their karma. Maybe whoever stole St. Francis read the letter and was a little worried, or maybe returning him was the plan all along. Either way, Saturday morning, St. Francis reappeared in exactly the same spot from where he was taken from their Sourdough Road home. But he’s not unscathed. A new paint job gives him glittering green robes, gold sandals and a purple rope belt/ Rachel Hergett , Bozeman Chronicle. More here. (Bozeman Chronicle photo/Erik Petersen: Harold and Mary Jo Paul with made over St. Francis statue)

Question: Do you consider this funny or sacrilegious?