Czech police find stolen skull of 13th-century saint and arrest man
The Guardian World ·
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. …
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. …
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