{"id":4009,"date":"2006-03-17T15:54:28","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T15:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/03\/on-peters-bones.html"},"modified":"2006-03-17T15:54:28","modified_gmt":"2006-03-17T15:54:28","slug":"on-peters-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/03\/on-peters-bones.html","title":{"rendered":"On Peter’s Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just want to clarify something I wrote in the Scavi post. As I recall, the tour guide (who of course was not just doing her own thing, but was acting as a representative of the site managers, aka the Vatican) was carefully-almost-agnostic about the bones. She didn’t quite say "We don’t know" but she did <\/em>say, "It’s interesting that they didn’t find feet…it fits in with the stories of Peter’s martyrdom" and she did <\/em>say "They could be" and "If they are…"<\/p>\n

So it seems to me that even though the remains are carefully preserved there, the emphasis is not<\/em> "Here are St. Peter’s bones." Rather, the emphasis is: the archaeological excavations have revealed that this is the spot where Constantine built his altar on top of the spot that had been revered for centuries as Peter’s burial spot." <\/p>\n

I think that’s an important distinction to make…and I came away from the tour hearing that distinction rather subtly, but truly made by the tour guide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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