St. Peter's Bones: How the Relics of the First Pope Were Lost and Found . . . and Then Lost and Found Again

From the Publisher"It's a thriller, a whodunit, and an adventure, full of clues, codes, false trails, professional envy, whiffs of conspiracy, and heroic mercy. And it's all true! Thomas Craughwell has delivered an historical account that's breathtaking, page-turning, and inspiring." -Mike Aquilina, Executive Vice-President, St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and author, The Fathers of the Church

"Religious legends sometimes have a funny way of turning out to be true.  For many years, scholars believed that the 'five porticoes' in a healing story of Jesus in Jerusalem were just a pious legend—until archeologists unearthed a site with 'five porticoes,' just as the Gospels had said. The remarkable story of the supposedly 'legendary' remains of St.