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WEALTH HIDDEN IN CELL

ROME Ang. 10. —A workman, while repairing the Monastery of St. Francis at Assisi. dislodged a biick, upon which gold coins fell from a monk’s cell. The coins, valued at between £IOOO and £2OOO, belong to the peried of Napoleon. It is believed that they were hidden in the cell, and that the cell was bricked no when the French invaded Italy. According to tradition. valuable church plate is walled up in the. monastery. and a search is now expected to be made for it.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OPNEWS19380923.2.17

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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 88, 23 September 1938, Page 3

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WEALTH HIDDEN IN CELL Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 88, 23 September 1938, Page 3

WEALTH HIDDEN IN CELL Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 88, 23 September 1938, Page 3

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