- The Delegate of the Government, the Councilor for Culture and the Chief Colonel of the 5th Zone have delivered to the Bishop six files belonging to the Archive of the Cathedral of Murcia
- The six files would have been illegally removed from the archives of the cathedral years ago
- The documents were recovered in Operation Pandora IV in 2019 and during this time they have been identified and reported favorably by the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage
December 3, 2024. The delegate of the Government, the councilor for Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports, Carmen Conesa, and the Colonel Chief of the 5th Zone, Francisco Pulido, have delivered several historical documents recovered by the Civil Guard in 2019 within its Plan for the Defense of the Spanish Historical Heritage and that were deposited in the General Archive of the Region to authenticate and determine its originality.
“It is a day of congratulations because we recover part of the history of the Region of Murcia and the Diocese of Cartagena thanks to the collaboration that we have had for years between the Civil Guard and the General Archive, through the Ministry of Culture, whose technicians have verified the originality of these documents, dated between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries,” said Mariola Guevara.
The three documents delivered today to the Bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena, Juan Manuel Lorca Planes, were recovered in October 2019 by the Civil Guard in Operation Pandora VI and are:
- Writing of concord between the bishop and the council on the possession of the tower of Alguazas (year 1453).
- Four notebooks or protocol of the Episcopal Audience of Cartagena (years 1463-1476).
- Notebook containing the obligations of the ministers and servants of the Santa Iglesia de Cartagena (1755-1823).
The delegate of the Government has valued the tireless work of the Civil Guard and its commitment in the defense of the Spanish Historical Heritage, which has launched brilliant operations in recent years.
The most recent, he recalled, was the clarification of a theft that took place in 2013 and the recovery of a bell that originated in the seventeenth century that crowned the hermitage of a popular Lorca estate, known as Colonia de Santa Teresa, and that Guevara itself handed over to its owner last July.
Other operations of interest in the Protection of Historical Heritage
Operation ‘Zehir’, established to clarify several robberies with force in homes of the Murcian region of the River Mula and settled with the recovery of about 700 archaeological and paleontological pieces located in a building of Mula and delivered to the museum of the city of Mula last July
In the region of Campo de Cartagena, investigation to clarify the demolition of a windmill declared BIC, which concluded with the identification, location and investigation of two people, who were instructed as alleged authors of crimes on historical heritage.
The CLARISAS operation, which culminated in the recovery of 14 manuscript books and nine legajos or documentary sets, written between the 16th and 20th centuries and considered Spanish Historical Documentary Heritage.