A tabernacle valued at $2 million was stolen from a Catholic church in Brooklyn last week and statues of angels flanking the altar were decapitated in the process, police said.

Police say someone busted into the altar at a New York City church, stole a $2 million gold relic and removed the head from a statue of an angel at some point late last week. The incident happened ...

Bishop Robert J. Brennan of Brooklyn, N.Y., blesses and purifies the altar at St. Augustine Church June 4, 2022, a week after the theft of the church’s historic tabernacle valued at $2 million.

The tabernacle at St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church dates to the 1890s and is a sacred work of art that cannot be replaced, according to the Diocese of Brooklyn.

Thieves targeted a $2 million, 18-carat gold tabernacle in a Catholic church this week. Courtesy of the Diocese of Brooklyn. When the pastor of a Brooklyn Catholic church came into work Saturday ...

The altar of St. Augustine parish as it appeared before the tabernacle was stolen. DeSales Media Group. The diocese said that the burglar “cut through a metal protective casing” to take the ...

The tabernacle is more than 100 years old and dates back to when the church was built in the 1800s. ... in addition to the Holy Eucharist that was kept in the tabernacle scattered across the altar.

In early January, a man entered a Benedictine monastery in Arkansas and began smashing the altar with a sledgehammer. He was about to begin breaking open the tabernacle where the consecrated bread ...

In recent years, the visual prominence of the tabernacle, not the centrality of the altar, seems to have become for some t Not Where, But Why | America Magazine Skip to main content ...