Posts Tagged ‘Christopher Columbus’

US returns stolen Christopher Columbus letter to Vatican

Monday, June 18th, 2018

A stolen letter from Christopher Columbus has been returned to the Vatican. The letter, worth US 1.2 million, was stolen and a forgery put in its place. “We do not know exactly when the substitution took place. We will probably never know who the forger was,” Archbishop Jean-Louis Brugues says. Bruges is the Vatican’s chief Read more

Columbus letter stolen from Vatican found in US

Monday, August 28th, 2017

A letter written by Christopher Columbus and stolen from the Vatican library has been found in America. The letter was found in the collection of a man who did not know it was stolen. He has agreed to return the letter to the Vatican library. Read more