This Sunday, the theft of a gold tabernacle valued at more than $2 million dollars was reported from a Catholic church in the New York district of Brooklyn.
The thieves would have entered by force to the temple, which is currently under construction, and with tools they opened the altar where the valuable object that was more than a century old was located.
In addition, fountains from the church of San Agustín, located in the neighborhood of Park Slope, in Brooklyn, they told the New York Post, that criminals decapitated statues of angels that flanked the room.
“This is devastating, because the tabernacle is the axis center of our church outside of prayer,” Father Frank Tumino told the New York Post.
“Knowing that a thief entered the most sacred place in our beautiful church and went to great lengths to breaking the security system is a heinous act of disrespect”, ag watered.
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