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To: HAL9000
"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," said Giorgio Filippi, the Vatican archaeologist who headed the project at St. Paul Outside the Walls basilica.

Let the dead bury the dead.

14 posted on 12/06/2006 4:36:39 PM PST by He Rides A White Horse (unite)
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To: He Rides A White Horse
Let the dead bury the dead.

And the living dig them back up.

18 posted on 12/06/2006 4:39:35 PM PST by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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Agree totally. Paul, himself, would have been disgusted (i.e., Less of me, more of Christ).


25 posted on 12/06/2006 4:54:16 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (Ever learning . . .)
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...devotional reasons, so that it could be venerated and be visible

Let the dead bury the dead.

Oh St Paul is alive alright, merely absent from the body.

Still we should venerate his living epistles not his dead bones.

Phillipians 1:21 "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."

225 posted on 12/07/2006 10:24:44 AM PST by Theophilus (A person is a person no matter how small)
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