A plaster copy of the Gothic Madonna with Child statue (pictured the original statue) returned to the Saint Bartholomew Church in Plzen from Norway after decades today, Monica Stensland, from the Norwegian embassy in Prague, has said. Norwegian woman Gerd Qvam took the statue to Norway at the turn of the 1950s and 60s. She said the then priest of the Plzen cathedral had feared that the statue could be either damaged or confiscated by the communist regime, and this was why he had asked her to export it. The Norwegian embassy in Prague and the Barratt Due institute enabled the statue´s return. H

A plaster copy of the Gothic Madonna with Child statue (pictured the original statue) returned to the Saint Bartholomew Church in Plzen from Norway after decades today, Monica Stensland, from the Norwegian embassy in Prague, has said. Norwegian woman Gerd Qvam took the statue to Norway at the turn of the 1950s and 60s. She said the then priest of the Plzen cathedral had feared that the statue could be either damaged or confiscated by the communist regime, and this was why he had asked her to export it. The Norwegian embassy in Prague and the Barratt Due institute enabled the statue´s return. H Stock Photo

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A plaster copy of the Gothic Madonna with Child statue (pictured the original statue) returned to the Saint Bartholomew Church in Plzen from Norway after decades today, Monica Stensland, from the Norwegian embassy in Prague, has said. Norwegian woman Gerd Qvam took the statue to Norway at the turn of the 1950s and 60s. She said the then priest of the Plzen cathedral had feared that the statue could be either damaged or confiscated by the communist regime, and this was why he had asked her to export it. The Norwegian embassy in Prague and the Barratt Due institute enabled the statue´s return. However, Qvam did not live to see it, since she died on September 19 aged 90, Stensland said in the Plzen cathedral today, on Tuesday, September 30, 2014. (CTK Photo/Petr Eret)

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