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A significant religious book that is around 500 years old and has been lost for decades has been returned to the Czech Republic . Italian customs representatives personally handed the tome over to Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Antonin Basler in the Czech city of Olomouc on Tuesday. The religious work with the title “Postilla super epistolas et evangelia” disappeared from the diocese’s collection at the beginning of World War II, the church said. The last trace of it was lost in Austria, until two years ago, when Italian authorities discovered the tome at an auction in the Adriatic port city of Tri…

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