Stolen objects, if found please return...no questions asked

Interesting article in which "Prominent U.S. Holocaust claims lawyer Ed Fagan is to file a "multi-billion" dollar lawsuit against Hungary, alleging it wrongly kept artworks stolen by the Nazis and conspired to prevent them being returned." Read it HERE.

Really, keeping stolen booty isn't new...come on guys. On the other hand, I wonder if we Orthodox might get ourselves a lawyer...if memory serves there are a few (thousand) of our relics and other precious religious materials spread throughout western europe. Italy, the Vatican, France etc...man can't the lawyers smell the potential money? Come on, where are all the left-leaning bleeding hearts who will recongize, lament, and make reparations for this grievous wrong done to us. We just need to drum up some more sympathy for the events of 1204.

We might also note 1453 when this item turned up missing:



Along with a few other churches, now disguised as mosques or museums. MUSEUMS for all love! Well one could arguably say that that is the state of Orthodoxy in Turkey today...but that is another story that might be told by a lawyer. Perhaps as a condition for acceptance into the EU we might ask....? Man, we just need to hire some good PR people...somebody email Bono.

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Anonymous said…
Yes, yes, James. I'm all for it. Let's sue! See if we can get Hagia Sophia back from the Muslims! See if we can get St. Nicholas back from Italy. Oh, and not to mention the Holy Shroud of Turin, and countless pieces of the Holy True Cross that St. Helen found in Jerusalem and are now laying hidden away in closets at RC Churches. Not to mention several hundred Orthodox Churches that the Teutonic Knights conquered and took possession of in the name of the Pope thorughout Poland, Lithuania, Belorossia and Ukraine.

It seems almost too much!
Basil
9:44 PM
fdj said…
"Sue everybody"

-Saul Rosenberg
7:24 AM
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