According to the Turkish press, about a week ago, a religious relic was transferred to the Museum of Ethnography, after 12 years in a courthouse in Ankara.
According to reports, the ancient book was found in the courtroom, after the arrest of archaeologists who tried to enter the country from the occupied territories, and since then, it has been forgotten!
It is speculated that this relic is the Gospel of Matthew that was stolen from the occupied monastery of the Apostle Barnabas in 1996.
Archbishop Chrysostom said: "But we wish that to be the true Gospel, and our joy will be great because the manuscript Gospel found on the chest of our Apostle is saved. "If it really is the Gospel of Matthew, we can not claim it again, as it was consecrated to the king of Byzantium, and once the city was conquered, any valuables now belong to Turkey."
According to other sources, the ancient religious relic is not the Gospel of Matthew, but the lost Gospel of the Apostle Barnabas himself.
It is a Gospel that surrounds a multitude of stories, superstitions and conspiracy theories.
Written in the native language of Jesus, Aramaic, with gold dust on its skin, the Gospel refers extensively to the life of Christ, and in some places it is said to converge with positions set out in the Qur'an.
The official Christian church, however, Catholic and Orthodox, rejects the Gospel of Barnabas as a forgery.
The Gospel of Barnabas, probably according to Barnabas, did not leave indifferent the Vatican, which seems to have asked Ankara to hand it over to him for study.
And it is not the first time, as, years ago, Cardinal Mario Pompeda, is said to have tried to buy it on behalf of the Vatican.
However, in 2006, the priest, as well as the journalist who was chasing the story of the lost Gospel, and the granddaughter of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who dealt with the issue θηκαν were murdered!
Hence the characterization, cursed!
Others, such as the leader of the Communist Party of the Republic of Turkey, Mehmet Tsakici, and Fikri Saglar, a member of the Turkish parliamentary committee investigating the Susurluk scandal, believe that the theft and safekeeping of the heirloom is linked to Turkish actions.
No one can say for now what is true and what is not.
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Source: SigmaLive