• Dublin patron saint's preserved heart recovered by police after 6 years
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/26/dublin-patron-saint-preserved-heart-recovered-by-police
The Heart rating is doubly relevant. In all seriousness though, why would someone want to steal a relic? It sounds like something out of an adventure story, like when some rich megalomaniac steals an artifact to use its powers.
To sell or keep in a collection. Probably the first. Another option would be to destroy it because you're a massive dickhead, but it wouldn't be recovered in that case.
The article specifically says that it has zero monetary value
Collectors are bizarre. Maybe it was just spite, then.
I don't know why they would think that. No monetary value to them, maybe. On the private market something like that would easily command $200,000, maybe more. It's a medieval artifact in an interesting shape, with a documented history, belonging to (in this case literally a part of) a well known person, in very fine condition. You can't exactly pop down to the dollar store and buy yourself an 800 year old preserved saint's heart.
Yeah I really have no idea why someone might steal a "priceless treasure", one which has so little value that it is pursued for 7 years and welcomed with a choir and throngs of people. PS this object has no monetary value
How the fuck could it not? Id pay a dollar for it at least
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