Four custodians transferred after Antonello da Messina heist

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 20 - Four custodians at a museum in Messina have been transferred after six precious works by Renaissance master Antonello da Messina were stolen from the gallery on Saturday, it said Thursday. The four custodians were on duty at the Accascina Museum in Messina when the works were stolen on the evening of August 15, the Ferragosto holiday for the Feast of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven, when thieves took advantage of the annual Marian ceremony in the Sicilian city. They...

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