Rocked by guilt, New Yorker returns marble stone to Jerusalem's Old City
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Wednesday, June 3rd 2009, 4:00 AM
A guilt-ridden New Yorker has returned a massive marble stone he grabbed from an excavation site in Jerusalem's Old City 12 years ago.
"Rather than remind me of the prayer for Jerusalem, I am reminded of the mistake I made when I removed the stone from its proper place in Israel," the sorry tourist wrote. "I am asking for your forgiveness."
The 46-pound hunk of a 9th-century marble column disappeared from an Israeli Antiquities Authority dig in 1997.
Several weeks ago, the authority received an e-mail from a New York priest who requested forgiveness on behalf of the man, who is a member of his congregation.
The stone was returned this week with a letter from the unidentified stone thief, who said he was given it by an Israeli tour guide.
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