After more than 40 years only three people knew the artifacts existed: A man in California, his mother in Texas and a woman storing them in her Southwest Portland home. Kate Chester had been given the two vintage Stations of the Cross, but had no idea where they’d come from. Even so, Chester, who attends St. Clare Catholic Church in Southwest Portland, understood the spiritual significance. As the days turned into weeks before Chester was set to move away from Portland, she was haunted by what to do with the Stations of the Cross in her second-floor guest room. She could drop them off at a nearby Goodwill Industries donation center, or put them on eBay, where pieces, less beautiful than her two, were selling for $500 or more. But matters of faith are not logical or practical. So, before she left Portland for good, she made it her mission to return those two artifacts to the church where long ago they’d offered parishioners a contemplative message of hope. She did it. And what beg...