A 31-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly broke into a church in Arkansas, hammered open an altar and stole two relic boxes that were embedded in the altar, officials said. The ...

"This is an act of desecration to the altar." According to Subiaco Abbey, the man was interrupted after he removed the veil from the church's tabernacle. In this vessel, Catholic churches store ...

SUBIACO -- The altar at Subiaco Abbey will be less ornate and more mobile for a while as monastery officials rebuild the marble altar after a man broke into the church and damaged it. The Logan ...

The man is accused of smashing open the altar of the Subiaco Abbey church with a hammer and stealing the ancient relics inside. By April Rubin A man is accused of entering an Arkansas church ...

In accordance with the prescriptions, the altar of the church has been stripped bare and all customary signs of joy and gladness have been put away," Subiaco Abbey announced. Timothy Nerozzi is a ...

SUBIACO - A marble church altar from Italy was damaged inside the Subiaco Abbey north of Subiaco in Logan County Friday, and a man was arrested after boxes of relics from martyred saints were ...

Witnesses said a man, later identified as 31-year-old Jerrid Farnam, went into the Abbey Church of St. Benedict between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. and used a sledgehammer to desecrate the altar.

The altar at Subiaco Abbey in Logan County ... On Thursday afternoon, guests of the church alerted officials that there was an apparently intoxicated man damaging artifacts.