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Catholic Church Burglary in Mount Carmel

Huron County OPP are investigating a burglary at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church. Police say someone entered the church on Bronson Line through an unlocked door sometime between the evenings of November 26th and November 28th. A number of religious items of high importance to the church were taken from a back room. The stolen items are worth over $9,500. They include a gold plated chalice and the paten the cup rests on, a gold plated monstrance used to display the Eucharist, and a gold plated censer which holds hot charcoal and incense. A small silver host box and a small ciborium, with four ciborium lids.

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