The remains of Saint Wolfgang were stolen in Regensburg.
The more than 1000 year old bones were stolen from the church named after him.
Valuable relics have been stolen in Regensburg *.
Unknown stole the remains of Saint Wolfgang.
The moral harm of theft is immense.
Regensburg
- Unusual
raid
in Regensburg: Unknown perpetrators
stole the
remains
of
Saint Wolfgang
from the church in
Regensburg
named after him
on Monday night
.
The perpetrators were extremely
brutal
, as the
parish announced
.
The relics were "broken out of the bulletproof glass and the steel enclosure with extreme force".
The
ideal damage of
the loss is immeasurable, it says in the declaration of the community.
Regensburg: relics of St. Wolfgang stolen - immense damage to ideas
Wolfgang,
who died
in 994
and was canonized in 1052, was an important
church prince of
the Middle Ages.
Among other things, he was employed as the
tutor of
the future Emperor Heinrich II and later appointed
Regensburg's first bishop
.
He died on October 31, 994. The
Wolfgang
Festival
is still celebrated every year on the day of his death
.
The
loss of the relics
so shortly before the festival is particularly bitter for the community.
Regensburg: relics of St. Wolfgang stolen - witnesses wanted
The only consolation: not all of
Wolfgang's relics
were kept in the church.
The greater part rests in the famous
St. Emmerams Basilica in the old town *
and is still intact.
Relics of the former bishop are also kept in the Austrian town of St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut and in Portugal.
The
Regensburg Kripo started
investigations into a particularly serious case of theft, even if the material damage is comparatively minor.
The investigators urgently asked for
evidence
from the population.
"Any clue, no matter how small, can be important for the investigation," the officials wrote.
There was also a
spectacular robbery of valuables
in Dresden last December.
Burglars had
stolen
jewels of
inestimable value
in the “Green Vault” of the Residenzschloss in Dresden
.
There is still no trace of it.
The damage amounts to around one billion euros.