The Boston Globe, May 18th, 2000
VATICAN CITY - Silently, one-by-one, they filed down the narrow winding stairs. A retired junior high school teacher, a lawyer, a public relations consultant, five priests, three nuns, two teenagers, and a young father toting his 2-year-old on his back - some 50 Boston-area residents in all - descended into the subterranean crypt below St. Peter's Basilica. It is from these cool quarters, under low ceilings, that much of the spiritual energy and history of the Catholic Church rises: Here, amid the marble tombs of countless popes and cardinals, is where the skull of St. Peter, the founder of th...
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