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Thomas J. Craughwell

St. Peter's Bones

How the Relics of the First Pope Were Lost and Found . . . and Then Lost and Found Again

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In this fascinating account of the search for the remains of the world's first pope, none other than Peter, the chief apostle of Jesus, Thomas J. Craughwell takes us on one of the most exciting archaeological finds of the twentieth century. In 1448 a team of architects and engineers brought Pope Nicholas V unhappy news: the 1,100-year-old Basilica of St. Peter suffered from so many structural defects that it was beyond repair. The only solution was to pull down the old church--one of the most venerable churches in all of Christiandom--and erect a new basilica on the site. Incredibly, one of the tombs the builders paved over was the resting pl… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-307-98509-5
  • EAN: 9780307985095
  • Produktnummer: 12456721
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 144 S.

Über den Autor


THOMAS J. CRAUGHWELL was the author of Saints Behaving Badly, Urban Legends, Alligators in the Sewer and 222 Other Urban Legends, Saints for Every Occasion: 101 of Heaven's Most Powerful Patrons, and Do Blue Bedsheets Bring Babies? He wrote about saints for the the Wall Street Journal, St. Anthony Messenger, and Catholic Digest, and discussed saints on CNN and EWTN. His book Stealing Lincoln's Body was made into a two-hour documentary on the History Channel. He passed away in 2018.

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