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Five Picasso etchings stolen in December from Madrid’s Museum of Contemporary Art were returned undamaged Monday by a Roman Catholic priest, who said he received them from a youth whose confession he was hearing. Father Luis Martin Vigil, 55, said he could not reveal the youth’s name because priests are forbidden to divulge the secrets of the confessional. “He did not look like a criminal,” Vigil said.

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