[Mr. Lucky]

...and if Mary really had another six or seven or eight or so... children wouldn't at least one of them have been decent enough to care for their widowed mother?

[Delbert]

YOU GUYS ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS....JUST FOUND ON CNN WEBPAGE : She said the ossuary arrived at the museum in "a damaged state" but didn't know the degree of damage or where in transit it occurred.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/americas/11/01/jesus.inscription.ap/index.html

[Delbert]

Let me try that again.....

YOU GUYS ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS....JUST FOUND ON CNN WEBPAGE :
TORONTO, Canada (AP) -- An ancient limestone burial box that may be the oldest archaeological link to Jesus has been damaged in transit from Israel to Canada, Royal Ontario Museum officials said Friday. "There is some consultation going on right now," said Marilynne Friedman, senior publicist for the Royal Ontario Museum.

She said the ossuary arrived at the museum in "a damaged state" but didn't know the degree of damage or where in transit it occurred.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/americas/11/01/jesus.inscription.ap/index.html

[BlackVeil]

"other children wouldn't at least one of them ... care for their widowed mother?" Exactly. Good post.