Alpine Museum in Bern returns saint statue to Valais

On Monday the ALPS Alpine Museum of Switzerland returned a late-Gothic statue of a saint to the municipality of Baltschieder in canton Valais after more than 100 years. The statue was collected from a warehouse in Zollikofen, Bern, on Monday morning and transported by helicopter to the Upper Valais. The return of the sacred statue will then be celebrated with an official reception at the Baltschieder community centre. In the afternoon, the 15th- or 16th-century statue will be flown to its…