Share This Story with A Friend Spanish police have recovered a
stolen 12th century religious manuscript considered the first
guide to the 800-km Camino de Santiago (or Way of St. James)
pilgrimage. The Codex Calixtinus was recovered Wednesday, a year
after it was taken from a cathedral in the northwestern city of
Santiago de Compostela. On Tuesday, police in the town arrested
a former church caretaker, his wife, his son and another woman
related to the family in connection with the theft. The
elaborately illustrated medieval document — a collection of
sermons and liturgical passages to guide Christian pilgrims —
was stolen from a safe deposit box inside the Santiago de
Compostela cathedral, which is located at the end of the
pilgrimage route. The cathedral is the reputed burial site of
St. James the Greater, one of Jesus' apostles who, according to
the church, arrived in Spain to preach Christianity. Police said
they have recovered eight copies of the Codex, other ancient
books and keys to cathedral outbuildi