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The Archbishop of Spoleto, Italy, asked the thieves to return immediately to St. II. A reliquary containing a few drops of Pope John Paul’s blood was stolen from the city’s cathedral.
Archbishop Renato Boccardo urged the return of the relic in a video message. He said that the believers in the city were deeply moved by what had happened.
“I hope the perpetrators were driven by ignorance and did not want to offend the believers. I also hope that the robbery was not for profit ”.
Archbishop Boccardo said.
Representatives of local cultural life also joined the call, urging the return of the relic. The police are investigating with great force.
According to press reports, the reliquary was kept in one of the side chapels of the Spoleto Cathedral. The church guard participated in the robbery. There was no alarm in this part of the cathedral, the thieves jumped on the fence that closed the chapel.
In the golden relic holder II. A few drops of Pope John Paul’s blood were preserved, donated to the joint diocese of Spoleto and Norcia in September 2016 by the former personal secretary of the Polish Pope, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, retired Archbishop of Krakow.
They wanted to move the relic to another church, which II. It is dedicated to the memory of John Paul on October 22, the day of his former papal investiture.
The church now commemorates the centenary of the birth of later Archbishop Karol Wojtyla: he was born in May 1920, but due to the coronavirus epidemic, the anniversary celebration has been postponed. On Friday, Polish President Andrzej Duda will also visit the Vatican on St. II. To the tomb of Juan Pablo.
The Polish Pope was elected archbishop in October 1978, died in April 2005, and was ordained a saint in 2014. (MTI)
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