Satori
Full Member
Colombian Police Arrest Thieves of Ecuadorean Baroque Treasure
By Stephan Kueffner
Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Colombian police arrested four suspects in the city of Pereira over the theft of a baroque treasure from a museum in Ecuador.
Police found part of a baroque monstrance and several other artifacts stolen from the religious art museum in the central Ecuadorean city of Riobamba last October, Deputy Foreign Minister Jose Valencia said today in a radio interview with Ecuador Inmediato.
The base of the 1 meter (3.3 foot) tall Riobamba Monstrance, which in Roman Catholic liturgy is used to display the host in processions, hasn't been recovered, he added.
Made in 1705 and valued at several million dollars, the complete monstrance weighs 36 kilograms and is made of gold and silver and encrusted with about 3,500 diamonds, pearls, emeralds, amethysts and other precious stones.
Police also recovered the golden crown, scepter, and jewel- studded cape of a statue of the Virgin Mary, said Valencia.
By Stephan Kueffner
Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Colombian police arrested four suspects in the city of Pereira over the theft of a baroque treasure from a museum in Ecuador.
Police found part of a baroque monstrance and several other artifacts stolen from the religious art museum in the central Ecuadorean city of Riobamba last October, Deputy Foreign Minister Jose Valencia said today in a radio interview with Ecuador Inmediato.
The base of the 1 meter (3.3 foot) tall Riobamba Monstrance, which in Roman Catholic liturgy is used to display the host in processions, hasn't been recovered, he added.
Made in 1705 and valued at several million dollars, the complete monstrance weighs 36 kilograms and is made of gold and silver and encrusted with about 3,500 diamonds, pearls, emeralds, amethysts and other precious stones.
Police also recovered the golden crown, scepter, and jewel- studded cape of a statue of the Virgin Mary, said Valencia.
