[Apologetics] Extraordinary Find Dug Up Near Vatican

[Art Kelly]

Thanks, Dianne.

Catholic World News has a article on this today at
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=48047

There was an earlier, longer article on this same
subject back on February 17, 2005 at
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=35331

At the time, I was not completely convinced the
evidence was conclusive that it was St. Paul's tomb.

As I read both articles now, it does appear to be
likely.

Art 

--- Dianne Dawson <rcdianne at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
http://channels.isp.netscape.com/whatsnew/default.jsp?story=20061206-1302
>    
>   Extraordinary Find Dug Up Near Vatican
>   
> Vatican archaeologists have dug up a stone coffin
> buried underneath Rome's second largest basilica
> that they believe contains the remains of the
> Apostle Paul.      The Associated Press reports that
> the sarcophagus dates to at least A.D. 390. The
> complex excavation work began in 2002 and was just
> completed in November. "Our objective was to bring
> the remains of the tomb back to light for devotional
> reasons, so that it could be venerated and be
> visible," Giorgio Filippi, the Vatican archaeologist
> who headed the project at St. Paul Outside the Walls
> basilica, told AP. The interior of the sarcophagus
> has not yet been explored.      Tradition has long
> claimed this as the burial site of St. Paul. Before
> the current basilica, two ancient churches once
> stood at the same place. Roman emperor Theodosius
> built the second church in the fourth century and
> left St. Paul's tomb visible first above ground and
> later in a crypt. That church was destroyed in a
> fire in 1823, and the basilica
>  that still stands today was then built. At that
> time the ancient crypt was filled with dirt and
> covered up with a new altar. "We were always certain
> that the tomb had to be there beneath the papal
> altar," Filippi told AP.      The Vatican decided to
> unearth the sarcophagus and make it visible again
> after many pilgrims who came to Rome in 2000 for the
> Catholic Church's Jubilee year were disappointed to
> find St. Paul's tomb could not be visited or
> touched. 
> 
> 
> Like a deer that longs for running waters so my soul
> longs for you, O God.
> 
> Ps 42:1
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