Intoxicated man desecrates altar with sledgehammer, steals 1,500 year-old relics
Intoxicated man desecrates altar with sledgehammer, steals 1,500 year-old relics. An Arkansas prep school went into lockdown after a man entered the school's church, destroyed its marble altar, and walked out with multiple 1,500-year-old relics, according to authorities. The incident happened at the Subiaco Abbey Church in Arkansas, part of a Benedictine monastery and an all-male, college-prep school. According to Subiaco Abbey and the Logan County Sheriff's Office, Jerrid Farnam, 31, entered the building between 3 and 4 p.m. on Jan. 5. He used a regular hammer and sledgehammer to destroy a marble altar that housed two brass containers that each stored three sacred relics. One of the sacred relic containers returned to the Subiaco Abbey after it was stolen on Thursday. Subiaco Abbey / Facebook "The altar itself had a very large hole in the middle of the slab that went all of the way through the altar and the altar had large cracks and chips," Sheriff's office wr...