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- <text id=91TT2363>
- <title>
- Oct. 21, 1991: Science & Sacrilege Roil the Faithful
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 21, 1991 Sex, Lies & Politics
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 30
- Science And Sacrilege Roil The Faithful
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- <p>By Janice Castro/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- <p> It was a rough week for Italian saints. To start with,
- scientists in Milan announced that a mixture of iron chloride
- and calcium carbonate, which looks like dried blood, can
- duplicate a phenomenon that has long been regarded as the
- miracle of ST. JANUARIUS. A vial believed to contain blood from
- the 4th century priest is kept in Naples, where several times
- a year the contents spontaneously liquefy and then return to a
- powdery state. The researchers, who demonstrated the same
- phenomenon with the chemical compound, speculate that a chemist
- may have concocted a hoax. The next day, in Padua, four masked
- thieves broke into the basilica and stole a gold-plated,
- jewel-encrusted reliquary. It contained the jaw and teeth of ST.
- ANTHONY.
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- </body></article>
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