A former employee for the organization that maintains St Peter’s Basilica, pictured, was arrested after police say he stole a seventeenth-century manuscript (AFP via Getty Images) A former Vatican ...

Two cherubs and a gilded angel, which is 13 feet tall, stand on top of the wooden canopy of the baldachin over the main altar of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this undated photo.

ROMEROME — Vatican police have detained a former employee on charges of attempted extortion after he allegedly tried to sell a 17th-century gilded manuscript describing Bernini’s designs for the altar ...

The lawyer for the former Vatican employee accused of trying to sell St. Peter's Basilica an allegedly stolen 17th-century manuscript about plans for the massive canopy over the basilica's main altar ...

The Vatican arrested a former employee in late May for attempted extortion after he sold an allegedly stolen 17th-century manuscript to the Vatican for hundreds of thousands of euros. According to the ...

ROME (AP) — Vatican police have detained a former employee on charges of attempted extortion after he allegedly tried to sell a 17th-century gilded manuscript describing Bernini’s designs for the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ROME (AP) — Vatican police have detained a ...

FILE - The scaffolding surrounded 17th century, 95ft-tall bronze canopy by Giovan Lorenzo Bernini surmounting the papal Altar of the Confession is seen in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, ...