Mystery of cardinal’s missing bones

From the BBC: Mystery of cardinal’s missing bones.

A forensic archaeologist has raised fresh questions over why no remains were found in the grave of an English cardinal in line to become a saint.

It comes just days before artefacts owned by Cardinal John Henry Newman go on display ahead of his possible beatification.

Tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets of Birmingham in 1890 as Cardinal John Henry Newman’s body was carried eight miles to its final resting place.

Some 118 years later the Vatican ordered his remains be dug up. [continue].

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