Stolen rosary - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 05 Jul 2021 11:00:28 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Stolen rosary - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Mary Queen of Scots rosary beads stolen https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/07/05/mary-queen-of-scots-rosary/ Mon, 05 Jul 2021 11:00:28 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=137957 Thieves snuck in through a window at a 1,000-year-old Arundel Castle, in West Sussex, England, and made off with a trove of gold and silver items worth more than $1.4 million, including gold rosary beads owned by Mary of Scots. Mary may have carried this rosary on her person as she recited her final prayers Read more

Mary Queen of Scots rosary beads stolen... Read more]]> Thieves snuck in through a window at a 1,000-year-old Arundel Castle, in West Sussex, England, and made off with a trove of gold and silver items worth more than $1.4 million, including gold rosary beads owned by Mary of Scots.

Mary may have carried this rosary on her person as she recited her final prayers and knelt at the executioner's block.

The House of Howard, a noble English family with ties to Queen Elizabeth the first's mother, Anne Boleyn, has held the rosary in its collections at Arundel ever since. Read more

Mary Queen of Scots rosary beads stolen]]> 137957 Theft of Mary Queen of Scots' rosary a ‘tragic loss' for Catholic history https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/05/31/theft-of-mary-queen-of-scots-rosary/ Mon, 31 May 2021 07:55:42 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=136818 The theft of the gold rosary that Mary, Queen of Scots took to her execution is a "very tragic loss" for Catholic history, a curator has said. Jan Graffius, the curator of the Stonyhurst Collections, made the comment after police reported that thieves broke into Arundel Castle in West Sussex, southern England, on May 21, Read more

Theft of Mary Queen of Scots' rosary a ‘tragic loss' for Catholic history... Read more]]> The theft of the gold rosary that Mary, Queen of Scots took to her execution is a "very tragic loss" for Catholic history, a curator has said.

Jan Graffius, the curator of the Stonyhurst Collections, made the comment after police reported that thieves broke into Arundel Castle in West Sussex, southern England, on May 21, stealing the rosary and other items worth more than $1.4 million.

"This is a very tragic loss for history, and specifically for Catholic history," she told CNA.

"I heartily wish that the stolen artifacts are speedily reunited with their rightful owner, whose family has faithfully cared for them over so many centuries."

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