National Museum officials set meeting with Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma to discuss the controversy surrounding the four panels being claimed by the Boljoon heritage church
Father Miguel Ortega allegedly stole rare religious antiques from the Archdiocesan Shrine of Patrocinio de Maria Santisima in Boljoon, Cebu, when he served as parish priest from 1976 to 1982
Even as he acknowledged the NMP’s desire to exhibit the panels to the general public, Palma said the illegal removal of the panels “constitutes a sacrilege.”
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Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma says the four stolen panels are sacred objects because they were on the pulpit 'where for centuries, Augustinian friars delivered sermons to the faithful'