CHURCH JEWEES THEFT
THE CZENSTOCHOWA CRIME.
SACRILEGE AND MURDER.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.
St. Petersburg, February 28. The trial has opened of three monks of St. Pauline Convent, Czenstochowa, in Russian Poland. They arc charged with murder and sacrilege in October, 1909. A hundred witnesses will be heard during the trial. ■ ' The chief prisoner is Father Darnazy Macoch, whom the Pope afterwards excommunicated. . He confesses that he sold the jewels taken from the statue of the Virgin Mary, through his cousin, Vaclar Macoch, whom he afterwards murdered, fearing that the cousin would divulge the plot, '.■'-■•. The cousin's body, sewn inside a sofa, was found in a river. /'.. One of the principal articles stolon From the o. riveni. at Czenstochowa was a diamond crown on the brow of the statue of the Virgin Mary, valued at £100.000. The priest Macoch escaped after, murdering his cousin, but was re-captured last year. A large early pilgrimage takes place to Czenstochowa, to venerate the, Virgin, which has been worshipped for hundreds of years.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14930, 1 March 1912, Page 7
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