Vatican ossuaries - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 25 Jul 2019 06:11:48 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Vatican ossuaries - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Forensic experts to study ‘thousands of bones' found in Vatican ossuaries https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/07/25/forensic-bones-vatican-ossuaries/ Thu, 25 Jul 2019 07:51:57 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=119723 During a search for the remains of a young Italian woman missing for more than 30 years, workers discovered an enormous number of bones inside two ossuaries in a building next to a Vatican cemetery. Further studies on the remains will be carried out starting July 27, but it was not yet possible to predict Read more

Forensic experts to study ‘thousands of bones' found in Vatican ossuaries... Read more]]> During a search for the remains of a young Italian woman missing for more than 30 years, workers discovered an enormous number of bones inside two ossuaries in a building next to a Vatican cemetery.

Further studies on the remains will be carried out starting July 27, but it was not yet possible to predict how long it would take to conduct a "detailed morphological analysis of the remains found in the ossuaries," Alessandro Gisotti, outgoing interim director of the Vatican press office, said.

Gisotti said the investigation, led by a Vatican-appointed specialist in forensic medicine, Giovanni Arcudi, was being carried out according to internationally recognized protocols. Read more

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