Rare icons hacked from 15th-century English church

[UPI News] – TORBRYAN, England, Aug. 13 (UPI) — Two icons officials called exceptionally rare were hacked from a wooden screen and a third was damaged in a 15th-century country church in southern England.The charity that maintains the medieval-era Holy Trinity church in Torbryan, Devon, in southwestern England, said the theft was “devastating,” The Guardian reported Tuesday.The stolen panels depicted St. Victor of Marseilles and St. Margaret of Antioch. A third image of an unnamed female saint was damaged.Crispin Truman, chief executive of the Churches Conservation Trust, described the works as “significant,” but said they were worth more in the church than in the hands of a collector…..

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