[UA] Fwd: Stolen Skull of Spanish Antipope Recovere d

[Chad Underkoffler]

Just received this in email. Enjoy!

--- "Schoene, Thomas" <TSchoene at ANTEON.COM> wrote:
> From: "Schoene, Thomas" <TSchoene at ANTEON.COM>
> Subject: FW: Yahoo! News Story - Stolen Skull of Spanish
> Antipope Recovered
> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:57:35 -0400
> 
> OK, there just has to be an adventure seed in here somewhere.
> 
> **********************************************
> Wednesday September 13 9:33 AM ET
> 
> Stolen Skull of Spanish Antipope Recovered 
> 
> MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police have recovered the skull of
> a 14th century Spanish antipope, stolen in April from a ruined
> palace and held for ransom by semi-literate thieves, the 
> Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
>
> Civil Guard police arrested two people, one a minor, on
> suspicion of taking the skull of Benedict XIII, better known 
> as the antipope Papa Luna, and demanding one million pesetas 
> ($5,200) to return it.
>
> The cranium, all that is left of Benedict's remains, was
> removed in April from a ruined palace in Savinan, a remote 
> town in the central Spanish region of Aragon. The mayor of 
> nearby Illueca, where Benedict was born Pedro de Luna,
> received three badly written ransom notes threatening to
> throw the skull in the river if he did not pay, newspapers 
> reported at the time.
>
> Papa Luna became the second ``anti-pope'' in 1394 after the
> Great Schism split the Catholic Church between followers of 
> the pope in Rome and an antipope in Avignon. After he died in 
> 1423 his embalmed body became famous for working miracles.
>
> The ministry said in a news release the thieves had sent
> photos of the skull and then claimed to have sold it to 
> invented buyers in the Levante region.
>
> Finally Civil Guards arrested two suspects -- a 22-year-old
> and a minor both identified only by their initials -- and 
> recovered the skull and the urn in which it was kept. 
> 
> Copyright © 2000 Yahoo! Inc., and Reuters Limited. All rights
> reserved.



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