Possible body of the Apostle Paul found?

Very interesting to say the least. This is a huge find for world history in general and the Christian faith in particular. It all started for Paul and the early religion of Christianity on the road to Damascus. He went on to write 13 books in the New Testament and traveled the Roman empire to become the major apostle of Christianity after the death of Christ. 

Check out this awesome google Timeline of the Apostle Paul’s life and legacy. 

Daily Mail | Have we found the body of St Paul?

Deeply moved, the Pope delivered the news on Sunday that fragments of bones found in the tomb traditionally considered to be that of Saint Paul did indeed date from the first or second century.

Which means that, in all likelihood, they are the bones of the Apostle Paul – bones that have lain there for 1,950 years yet, astonishingly, have only been discovered in our time.
You might say, so what? Aren’t Roman Catholics always making claims about bones and relics? Was it not said that if you measured all the bits of the True Cross venerated throughout the world you could build a bridge to the moon? Yes, yes.

But this is slightly different, and it is very exciting. The Pope was not saying that he revered some relics as a matter of faith. He was saying that scientists, by carbon dating, have come as close as possible to identifying the very bones of St Paul himself.

Why is he so convinced? Though the carbon-dating experts knew nothing of their origins, the bone fragments were recovered after a tiny probe was inserted into the tomb which lies in a crypt beneath the Basilica of St Paul outside the Walls in Rome – a church long held to have been built on the site where Paul was buried.

It was only three years ago that the tomb itself was discovered by Vatican archaeologists.

The fact that it was positioned exactly underneath the epigraph Paulo Apostolo Mart (Paul the Apostle and Martyr) at the base of the altar convinced them it was Paul’s tomb.

Now backed by the evidence of his carbon-dated bone fragments, the Pope has announced: ‘This seems to confirm the unanimous and uncontested tradition that the bone fragments are the mortal remains of the Apostle Paul.’