Have Vatican archaeologists found the remains of the Apostle
Paul? Pope Benedict announced on Sunday that fragments of bone
dating to the first or second century have been discovered in a
tomb in the Basilica of St. Paul in Rome. Tradition holds that
Paul was martyred in Rome around A.D. 65 and that his remains
are located in the Basilica. But there was no way of knowing
until the discovery of a sarcophagus in 2006. Archaelogists
drilled a tiny hole in the stone coffin and found traces of
purple linen cloth and fragments of bone, which have been dated
to the time of Paul's life.