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Pectoral Cross of Benedict XVI Stolen From Bavarian Church

World Meeting of Families 2012Pope Benedict XVI waves at the World Family Meeting in Milan with Cardinal Angelo Scola on June 4, 2012.

Unknown perpetrators broke open a display case on the wall of St. Oswald’s Church in the city of Traunstein during daylight hours Monday. Pope Benedict XVI bequeathed the cross cross to St. Oswald’s after his retirement in 2013. Beneditc celebrated his first Mass as a newly ordained priest at St. Oswald’s in 1951.