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To: abuelita who wrote (30505)	8/25/2000 1:17:04 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35685

rose...re dead heads are water soaked........ Thieves Steal Skull of 14th Century Pope MADRID, Spain (Reuters) - Thieves have stolen the skull of a 14th century Spanish pope from a ruined palace in a remote town in Spain -- and are now reported to be demanding a ransom. The skull of Benedicto XIII was stolen in April from a boarded-up palace that once belonged to a local count, a civil guard officer in Sabinan, in the central Spanish region of Aragon, said on Wednesday. The mayor of the nearby town of Illueca, the birthplace of the pope, has received two scrawled ransom notes ordering him to bring $5,400 to a park in the city of Zaragoza to retrieve the cranium, newspaper La Vanguardia said. A civil guard spokeswoman in Zaragoza said she could not comment on the case as it was still under investigation. The newspaper report said the mayor went to the rendezvous accompanied by at least 15 police. The thieves failed to appear and the mayor now fears they have carried out their threat to ''throw the skull in the river''. The pope, known as Papa Luna, was born in Illueca in 1325. He became the second ``antipope'' after the Great Schism split the Catholic Church in two and divided its followers between the pope in Rome and an antipope in Avignon. He died in 1423 and his embalmed body became famous for working miracles until it was destroyed by French troops during the 18th century War of Succession, leaving only the skull.