AMSTERDAM – It was 10:30 pm on a Friday when Arthur Brand got the delivery he was nervously expecting.
His doorbell rang, and when he opened the door no one was there. Instead, a cardboard box was waiting for him at the door in the dark.
In that box he said was one of the most sacred artefacts ever stolen from the Catholic Church: the “Precious Blood of Christ” relic.
“(My) heart was beating in (my) chest,” the Dutch art detective told AFP in an interview about the recovery of the stolen treasure.
Brand is dubbed the “Indiana Jones of the Art World” for his remarkable recoveries of stolen art,…
