BIBLE scripture states “seek, and you will find,” but the head of baby Jesus on a religious statue in Canada has proven that sometimes all it takes is going viral.

    The statue of Mother Mary and baby Jesus in the yard of Sainte Anne Des Pins Roman Church in Sudbury, Ontario has been vandalized for years.

    But the statue received international attention two weeks ago when a local artist replaced baby Jesus’ missing head with an especially devilish looking terracotta substitute.

    News of the new head quickly went viral, inspiring one woman to return the original head to Father Gerard Lajeunesse on Friday after seeing the statue on social media.

    The woman told Lajeunesse that the person who stole the baby Jesus head had been suffering from personal problems, according to CBC.

    Lajeunesse said he was simply happy the head had been returned and had no plans to file a complaint over the theft.

    He presented the statue’s head to the congregation during Mass on Sunday before putting it back in its rightful place.

    It was a happy ending for the statue, which had been vandalized for years by thieves in the area who enjoyed beheading baby Jesus.

    The head was often left on the ground for Lajeunesse to reattach the next morning, but it went missing for good last year on Devil’s Night, the day before Halloween.

    Local artist Heather Wise had been walking through the church grounds that winter when she saw the headless baby Jesus, and knew she had to do something about it.

    “I was so sad,” she told Sudbury.com. “My feelings were hurt when I saw it, because I thought ‘Who would do that?’ It’s just not a positive feeling to see that.”

    “I said, ‘I’m an artist, I would like to fix it.’”

    Wise went straight to Lajeunesse’s door and told him she wanted to make a replacement head for the statue.

    It seemed like divine intervention. Businesses had already refused to create the replacement, which needed to be custom-made, for the church.

    And a brand new statue would have cost the church upwards of US$10,000.

    Wise had learned how to sculpt in college, but she had never worked with stone. So instead she fashioned a temporary head out of clay.

    But parishioners were immediately upset when the replacement was unveiled last week, and even Lajeunesse admitted the new head was “shocking to the eyes” due to the “big contrast in color” of the clay against the stone.

    And as pictures of the temporary baby Jesus head made their way online, people from all over the world couldn’t help but poke fun at it.

    “When you’re baby Jesus but you’re also a demonic hedgehog,” joked Emily Gordon on Twitter as she posted a photo of the statue on Twitter.

    “It pretty much sums up how 2016 is going,” added Tommy Tighe.

    The temporary baby Jesus head even got its own Instagram page, where it was photoshopped on the likes of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, E.T. and Maggie from “The Simpsons.”

    Wise had planned to replace the clay head, which was already being worn away by the rain, with one made in stone next spring.

    (SD-Agencies)