Monday, August 29, 2022

MOTB Hands Ancient Manuscript to Greece; Gospel Manuscript Looted by Bulgaria in WWI

 The Museum of the Bible (MOTB) in Washington, D.C. has returned a handwritten Gospel manuscript, which is more than 1,000 years old and was looted from a monastery in Greece by Bulgarian troops in 1917, to the Greek Orthodox Church, the Christian Post website reports today (August 29, 2022).


MOTB curator Brian Hyland identified the manuscript -- one of the world's oldest hand-lettered Gospels -- as part of hundreds of priceless objects looted from the Kosinitza Monastery in Greece during World War I.


A formal return ceremony will be held at the monastery in northern Greece today (August 29, 2022), the MOTB said.

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