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ACLU Challenges Statues of Catholic Saints at Massachusetts Public Safety Building

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St. Michael image targeted for bringing to mind ‘police brutality.’

The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is challenging a city mayor’s plan to erect statues of two Catholic saints on a new public safety building, claiming it violates the separation of church and state — and that a depiction of St. Michael calls to mind images of police violence.

One of the planned statues in Quincy, Massachusetts, would depict St. Florian (250-c. 304), a Roman army commander and Christian martyr during the reign of Emperor Diocletian, who is the patron saint of firefighters.

The other would depict St. Michael the Archangel (the patron saint of police officers) vanquishing Satan.

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