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 ...

A priceless 12th-century manuscript stolen from a church last year was recovered yesterday. The richly illustrated Codex Calixtinus was found by police in a lock-up garage near the cathedral of ...

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 ...