There's a saint in my backyard!

[grandvizier1006]

ok, that was kind of an attention-grabber. I couldn't help myself

But the truth is a neighbor has had a stone-carved sculpture of a man in a robe. I don't know whether it is Jesus or not. Is there a patron saint of gardens or nature or something? The yard in question, on their side, is kind of empty save for some trees and that statue/figure at the end. It sits kind of close to our property line and my yard and the neighbors' doesn't have a fence or anything dividing it. There's nothing around the statue save for some ordinary foliage.

So, who is this guy?

 

[Michie]

I'm betting on Saint Francis.

 

[Rhamiel]

St. Francis is a popular saint for backyard statues

 

[Anhelyna]

take a piccie and we'll be more able to guess

 

[pdudgeon]

that was my first thought as well.

 

[grandvizier1006]

I ought to know how to do that. Don't know why I didn't think of it before

The images I looked up look like him, but this one doesn't seem to have any obvious bird figures embedded. The pose matches, though. I'll need to look at this some more but it looks like it will rain soon.