BERLIN (AP) — A cloth with a drop of blood from the late Pope John Paul II has been stolen from Cologne Cathedral.
German police said a visitor noticed on Sunday that the religious relic had disappeared and alerted a church usher.
In a statement, police quoted the cathedral’s provost, Gerd Bachner, lamenting the spiritual loss of the relic.
Police said the cloth was in a glass container that had been pried from a base of a sculpture commemorating the pope’s visit to Cologne in 1980.
Bachner urged the thief to return the relic.
Pope John Paul II was the leader of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005.
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Reports are that it was used to perform a miracle. The thief has made a blind man lame.
BTW: They should check to see if the little old lady from Spain had visited there. She “resotred” a priceless fresco free of charge and may have decided to take the cloth and clean it for the church.
Miraculous transformation of “Ecce Homo” to “Chia Christ or Curious George”
At least the Church is consistent. They’re on top of this like they are with regard to the pedophilia scandal.
Well, at least they’re sorry about something.
A drop of blood on a cloth is a spiritual relic? How charmingly medieval. It’s tough to get one’s head around just how bizarre this institution is.
Well, looks like Dan Brown has a concept for another one of his preposterous novels.
Could be he cried a tear of blood for all the kids he knew were raped by priests.