He said the goal was to make the Jesus statue the center of the John C. Leone Memorial Reef. Within a year, the statue was ...

A bolt struck a 62-foot-tall statue of Jesus Christ outside a church in Monroe ... the Engineering News Record covered the construction of a new, lightning-resistant statue with the headline ...

Five years after the statue burned down, the name “Touchdown Jesus” still carries recognition ... and the insurance money covered the cost of the new statue. To ensure history doesn’t ...