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"&lt;p&gt;Jos\u00E9 Manuel Fern\u00E1ndez Casti\u00F1eiras, the former electrician of the Santiago de Compostela cathedral in Galicia, in northern Spain, has been given a 10-year prison sentence for stealing the Codex Calixtinus, a priceless 12th-century illuminated manuscript from one of the church&amp;#8217;s chambers, &lt;a href=\"http://www.elmundo.es/cultura/2015/02/18/54e48f17ca4741c23d8b4571.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;El Mundo&lt;/em&gt; reports&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;According to the ruling, Fern\u00E1ndez Casti\u00F1eiras pinched the codex at an unspecified date between June 30 and July 5, 2011. He also stole\u00A0\u20AC2,4 million and $30,106\u00A0between\u00A02000 to 2012, amounts\u00A0that he will now have to repay to the cathedral. From that total, \u20AC1,7 million has already been handed back to the cathedral.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;The cash was found alongside the codex by police, in a garage owned by Fern\u00E1ndez Casti\u00F1eiras, on July 4, 2012. The codex had been wrapped in plastic bags and newspapers, so it reportedly did not suffer any damage.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Fern\u00E1ndez Casti\u00F1eiras has been sentenced to two\u00A0years in prison for continued theft, and will have to pay an additional fine of \u20AC268,425 for money-laundering charges, as he bought property with the stolen money. His wife has also been charged with money-laundering, and has been given a six-month prison sentence on top of a similar fine.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Fern\u00E1ndez Casti\u00F1eiras worked at the cathedral as a freelance electrician for over 25 years, which gave him full access to the church, even the more private areas.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;But the long-standing professional relationship &lt;a href=\"http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2015/02/18/actualidad/1424264777_363629.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;soured&lt;/a&gt; when the electrician got\u00A0fired for forging a document stating he was full-time employee. He then asked the cathedral to give him \u20AC40,000 on the grounds of &amp;#8220;unfair dismissal,&amp;#8221; which the cathedral refused to do. Many have interpreted the theft of the codex as a sort of \u201Crevenge.\u201D&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;div id=\"attachment_260713\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"&gt;&lt;img class=\"wp-image-260713 size-full\" src=\"https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2015/02/Codex-Calixtinus.jpg\" alt=\"The Codex Calixtinus&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Photo via: El Pa\u00EDs\" width=\"600\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2015/02/Codex-Calixtinus.jpg 600w, https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2015/02/Codex-Calixtinus-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" /&gt;&lt;p class=\"wp-caption-text\"&gt;The Codex Calixtinus.&lt;br /&gt; Photo via: &lt;em&gt;El Pa\u00EDs.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;For more artnet News art crime stories, see &lt;a href=\"http://news.artnet.com/in-brief/prosecutor-asks-for-five-year-suspended-prison-sentence-for-picassos-electrician-pierre-le-guennec-256595\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Prosecutor Asks for Five-Year Suspended Prison Sentence for Picasso&amp;#8217;s Electrician Pierre Le Guennec&lt;/a&gt;\u00A0and\u00A0&lt;a href=\"http://news.artnet.com/in-brief/librarian-steals-priceless-documents-from-russian-museum-256688\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Librarian Steals Priceless Documents from Russian Museum&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=\"http://news.artnet.com/in-brief/masked-vandal-destroys-michael-asher-sculpture-with-sledgehammer-260450\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Masked Vandal Destroys Michael Asher Sculpture With Sledgehammer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;em&gt;Follow &lt;a href=\"http://facebook.com/artnetnews\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;artnet News&lt;/a&gt; on Facebook.&lt;/em&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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