Each year on 31 January, the people of Alcoy, Spain hold a solemn procession, the Procession of the Miraculous Baby Jesus (Valencian: Jesuset del Miracle [dʒezuˈzed del miˈɾakle]), commemorating the theft of liturgical vessels that took place in 1568. == History == On 29 January 1568 John Meadows (Joan Prats), a cloth shearer, entered his local church and stole a silver ciborium containing forty pieces of sacramental bread, a pyx and a reliquary.
Each year on 31 January, the people of Alcoy, Spain hold a solemn procession, the Procession of the Miraculous Baby Jesus (Valencian: Jesuset del Miracle [dʒezuˈzed del miˈɾakle]), commemorating the theft of liturgical vessels that took place in 1568. == History == On 29 January 1568 John Meadows (Joan Prats), a cloth shearer, entered his local church and stole a silver ciborium containing forty pieces of sacramental bread, a pyx and a reliquary.
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