According to Associated Press, the Bavaria’s state criminal police in a statement on Tuesday said a display case on the wall of the town church in Traunstein was broken open by unknown perpetrators an
d the cross was taken sometime between 11:45 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Monday.A cross bequeathed by the late Pope Benedict XVI to a parish in his German home region of Bavaria has been stolen from the church where it was exhibited.
The cross was described as a pectoral cross — one worn on the chest. Police said that cash also was stolen from the till of a magazine stand in the church. Benedict died on December 31, nearly a decade after becoming the first pope in six centuries to resign.
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