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Article: Scientific tests done on St. Paul's bones
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
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- June 29, 2009
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ROME - The first-ever scientific tests on what are believed to be
the remains of the Apostle Paul "seem to conclude" that they do
indeed belong to the Roman Catholic saint, Pope Benedict XVI said
Sunday.
Archaeologists recently unearthed and opened the white marble
sarcophagus located under the Basilica of St. Paul's Outside the
Walls in Rome, which for some 2,000 years has been believed by the
faithful to be the tomb of St. Paul.
Benedict said scientists had conducted carbon dating tests on
bone fragments found inside the sarcophagus and confirmed that they
date from the first or second century.
"This seems to confirm the unanimous and uncontested tradition
that they are the mortal remains ...