[UA] Mechanomancer snatching up a charge...

[Susan Dohnim]

Sig? 10 sigs? Major?

I suppose it depends on whether they really are the keys to heaven :).

>March 13, 2003  |  VATICAN CITY (AP) --
>
>A hand clutching the symbolic keys to heaven was cut from a 13th-century 
>marble statue of St. Peter, which stands at the entrance to the grottoes 
>under St. Peter's Basilica where the saint was buried.
>
>Officials said Thursday the hand vanished a few days ago. They said they 
>first suspected vandals but now believe the hand was stolen. Italian and 
>Vatican police were investigating.
>
>The statue is believed to have been sculpted by Arnolfo di Cambio, who also 
>did the bronze statue of St. Peter's upstairs in the basilica in the 
>Vatican.
>
>Tourists can take a tour of the grottoes, which include an ancient 
>necropolis. Pope Paul VI, whose papacy was from 1963 to 1978, declared that 
>bones of an elderly man found at the site were those of St. Peter, the 
>first pope.
>
>The site of Nero's Circus, where Peter was believed to be martyred, lies 
>close to the basilica.


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