Four years after a priceless 12th-century travel guide, the Codex Calixtinus, was stolen from a Spanish cathedral, an electrician who worked there, and two members of his family, went on trial for ...

José Manuel Fernández Castiñeiras, the former electrician of the Santiago de Compostela cathedral in Galicia, in northern Spain, has been given a 10-year prison sentence for stealing the Codex ...

Police in northern Spain have recovered one of the country's great cultural treasures - a 12th-Century religious manuscript stolen a year ago. The Codex Calixtinus was found in a garage near Santiago ...

A former electrician appeared in a court in Spain on Monday accused of stealing one of the country’s most important cultural treasures – a 12th-century manuscript described as Europe’s first travel ...

The presumed thief, named as Manuel Fernandez Castineiras, had worked as a caretaker and odd-job man for more than 25 years at the shrine of the apostle of St James but was sacked early last year ...

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