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Related: About this forumSantiago de Compostela Codex Calixtinus found in garage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18720178Police in northern Spain have recovered one of the country's great cultural treasures - a 12th-Century religious manuscript stolen a year ago.
The Codex Calixtinus was found in a garage near Santiago de Compostela and four people were arrested over the theft from the city's cathedral.
The richly decorated book is considered the first guide for those following the ancient pilgrimage route to Santiago.
Police arrested a technician who worked at the cathedral and three relatives.
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Santiago de Compostela Codex Calixtinus found in garage (Original Post)
xchrom
Jul 2012
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tntreeherder1
(1 post)1. antiques and curios
Churches guard your goods. Don't let them just take your wares.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)2. Welcome to DU!
Judi Lynn
(160,656 posts)3. Yikes. It may be a garage is not the best place to store something like this.
It's good it was retrieved.
What gets into people, anway? Plain bad manners stealing irreplaceable historic treasures like this.
I suggest the people of Spain should just ignore them for the next few years. Pretend they're not there.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)4. This is a big deal in Spain - and apparently
There are some bad feelings on the part of this guy for where he used to work.
But it calls into question - how well antiquities protected?
Items like this bring in a lot of revenue over time - shouldn't that revenue - some of it - go to it's protection?