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The excavations under the famous Vatican basilica were ordered by Pius XII in 1941, convinced that the burial and remains of the first Pope in the history of the Church were located there.
Almost two thousand years after his crucifixion, more than ten years of archaeological excavations in the heart of the Vatican, the discovery that many historians described as “providential”, the subsequent secret transfer of the remains of the supposed saint and two more decades to confirm …
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