In honor of the nuns who raised her, Casper has named some of the figurines in her collection after them. “They all have stories to tell,” she said.

In honor of the nuns who raised her, Casper has named some of the figurines in her collection after them. “They all have stories to tell,” she said.

CHICAGO - Gloria Casper vividly remembers being trundled off to the Audy home, a juvenile detention center in Chicago, in a paddy wagon.

Measuring from about an inch to 22 inches tall, nun figurines and dolls, plus pictures and other nun-related memorabilia, fill any suitable void or shelf or corner of her spacious home.

These recollections have inspired her to collect more than 100 nun figurines. She displays them in a curio cabinet in her living room, in her kitchen and stored in boxes in her apartment at Beacon ...

Haršány’s habit-clad nun figurine, the miner with a face blackened to resemble coal dust, and the mother and child, all feature Slovak characteristics.

But these nuns are dolls and figurines made of ceramic, porcelain, alabaster, pewter and paper. Alive in shades like cherry red, canary yellow and turquoise, they range from inch-tall miniature ...

Donohue was reacting to a controversial exhibit in the splashy new Copia wine museum in Napa that has a set of figurines depicting the pope, nuns, Santa Claus and others defecating.

Discover the most valuable Hummels that might have been lurking in your grandmother’s curio cabinet for years, including finds from the brand’s special limited-run Disney collection and others.

Now, the figurine has been shown to the public for the very first time, and it’s being called the discovery of the century. The figure dates to the Neolithic period, at least 6,000 years ago, ...

Brenda Query and her family visited her great-aunt, Sister Aubrey, who was a Catholic nun, a Sister of Charity. After their visit, Sister Aubrey gave little Brenda a statue of St. Catherine.