A broken glass of a niche where the reliquary with the blood of the late Pope John Paul II was located is seen next to a painting of the late Pope in the small mountain church of San Pietro della Ienca, near the city of L'Aquila January 28, 2014 .Thieves broke into a small church in the mountains east of Rome over the weekend and stole the reliquary with the blood of the late Pope John Paul II, a custodian said on Monday. Dozens of police with sniffer dogs scoured the remote area for clues to what the Italian Catholic magazine Famiglia Cristiana called "a sacrilegious theft that was probably commissioned by someone". REUTERS/Max Rossi (ITALY - Tags: CRIME LAW RELIGION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A broken glass of a niche where the reliquary with the blood of the late Pope John Paul II was located is seen next to a painting of the late Pope in the small mountain church of San Pietro della Ienca, near the city of L'Aquila January 28, 2014 .Thieves broke into a small church in the mountains east of Rome over the weekend and stole the reliquary with the blood of the late Pope John Paul II, a custodian said on Monday. Dozens of police with sniffer dogs scoured the remote area for clues to what the Italian Catholic magazine Famiglia Cristiana called "a sacrilegious theft that was probably commissioned by someone". REUTERS/Max Rossi (ITALY - Tags: CRIME LAW RELIGION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A reporter speaks in front of a broken glass of a niche in the small mountain church of San Pietro della Ienca, near the city of L'Aquila January 28, 2014. The Catholic Church has appealed to thieves to return a reliquary containing the blood of the late Pope John Paul II that disappeared in what it called a "vile and sacrilegious theft". The gold reliquary was stolen at the weekend from a small stone church, San Pietro della Ienca, in the mountains east of Rome, where, in his younger days, the pope would slip away secretly from the pressures of the Vatican to hike and ski. REUTERS/Max Rossi (ITALY - Tags: RELIGION CRIME LAW MEDIA) 

A broken glass of a niche where the reliquary with the blood of the late Pope John Paul II was located is seen in the small mountain church of San Pietro della Ienca, near the city of L'Aquila January 28, 2014 .Thieves broke into a small church in the mountains east of Rome over the weekend and stole the reliquary with the blood of the late Pope John Paul II, a custodian said on Monday. Dozens of police with sniffer dogs scoured the remote area for clues to what the Italian Catholic magazine Famiglia Cristiana called "a sacrilegious theft that was probably commissioned by someone". REUTERS/Max Rossi (ITALY - Tags: CRIME LAW RELIGION) 

A broken window is seen in the small mountain church of San Pietro della Ienca, near the city of L'Aquila January 28, 2014 .Thieves broke into a small church in the mountains east of Rome over the weekend and stole the reliquary with the blood of the late Pope John Paul II, a custodian said on Monday. Dozens of police with sniffer dogs scoured the remote area for clues to what the Italian Catholic magazine Famiglia Cristiana called "a sacrilegious theft that was probably commissioned by someone". REUTERS/Max Rossi (ITALY - Tags: CRIME LAW RELIGION) 

A broken window is seen in the small mountain church of San Pietro della Ienca, near the city of L'Aquila January 28, 2014 .Thieves broke into a small church in the mountains east of Rome over the weekend and stole the reliquary with the blood of the late Pope John Paul II, a custodian said on Monday. Dozens of police with sniffer dogs scoured the remote area for clues to what the Italian Catholic magazine Famiglia Cristiana called "a sacrilegious theft that was probably commissioned by someone". REUTERS/Max Rossi (ITALY - Tags: CRIME LAW RELIGION) 

A statue of the late Pope John Paul II is seen in front of the small mountain church of San Pietro della Ienca, near the city of L'Aquila January 28, 2014 .Thieves broke into a small church in the mountains east of Rome over the weekend and stole the reliquary with the blood of the late Pope John Paul II, a custodian said on Monday. Dozens of police with sniffer dogs scoured the remote area for clues to what the Italian Catholic magazine Famiglia Cristiana called "a sacrilegious theft that was probably commissioned by someone". REUTERS/Max Rossi (ITALY - Tags: CRIME LAW RELIGION)