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The Heart of the Matter: Irish Relic Theft

Ridiculous Crime

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The Irish Relic Heist

In 1884, the Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney got one of her teeth from a church in France and gave it to some nuns in Melbourne. In 1928, the Bishop of Lisbon, he granted a fragment of Bridget's skull to Saint Bridget's church in Kalester, which is just outside of Dublin. On January 30th, sometime between noon and three, it disappeared. So this brings us to our second Irish relic. We got the back of her skull. They're just chipping away at it. Are they using like an incense pole? What are they doing with it? Oh no.

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