We moved the shower.

From Once a Warrior King by David Donovan.  Page 120.

The local Catholics also retained some of the ‘spiritism’ of their non-Catholic peers in other respects. For example, statues of Christ or of his mother, Mary, were thought to house the spirit of the venerated person, an idea found in medieval European Christianity but not one in favor for the past several hundred years in the West.

A delegation of believers came to me one day and asked that my team move a homemade shower stall that we had just erected in the compound. The shower had been put up within the line of sight of a statue of the Virgin Mary, and if you happened to notice, the Virgin appeared to be looking right in our shower door. The delegation seemed convinced that Mary, the mother of Jesus, would be watching through the eyes of the statue, would perhaps see us naked in the shower, and would be insulted. Well, I damned sure didn’t want to move the shower stall; it had been hard enough to put up the first time. My first reaction was to point out to them that the Virgin Mary certainly was not housed in their statue, but I knew I wasn’t there to argue theology, and I knew whatever I said wouldn’t change the attitudes instilled by generations of belief. We moved the shower.