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Czech police find stolen skull of 13th-century saint and arrest man

the Guardian·Agence France-Presse·17 days ago
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Czech police have found the skull of a 13th-century saint, days after it was stolen from a church in the north of the country. Police said they had arrested a suspect, who they said admitted to taking the skull of Saint Zdislava of Lemberk from a glass shrine in the basilica of St Lawrence and St Zdislava in the town of Jablonné v Podještědí on Tuesday. The 35-year-old man had objected to it being displayed, police said, and had intended to cover it in concrete and dispose of it in a river. “We know he wanted to sink it in the river today to bid farewell in this way,” the local police chief Petr Rajt told reporters. “If we had failed to detain the man yesterday, the skull would probably never be found.” The man had already covered the skull in concrete, police said, leaving experts facing an uphill task to restore it. St Zdislava of Lemberk, who was born around 1220 and died about 30 years later, was a noblewoman known for her charitable deeds and was canonised by Pope John Paul II in 1995.…

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