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Article: AT LAST WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO ST PAUL; Ruthless, half mad, he stoned Christians to death. He also founded modern civilisation. And until this week, his fate was one of history's great mysteries.(News)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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Byline: by A.N. Wilson
DEEPLY moved, the Pope delivered the news on Sunday that fragments of bones found in the tomb traditionally considered to be that of Saint Paul did indeed date from the first or second century.
Which means that, in all likelihood, they are the bones of the Apostle Paul - bones that have lain there for 1,950 years yet, astonishingly, have only been discovered in our time.
You might say, so what? Aren't Catholics always making claims about bones and relics? Was it not said that if you measured all the bits of the True Cross venerated throughout the world you could build a bridge to the moon?
Yes, yes. But this is ...