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Pagan Graves in Vatican Basement! - The cheeky title of a...

PostPosted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:39 pm
by steve vegas
new <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15255311/site/newsweek/">Newsweek</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> article (found on <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/10/14/vaticans-bizarre-often_n_31714.html/">huffpo)</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>Hmmm....What exactly is the Vatican trying to tell us?<br><br>Pagan Graves in Vatican Basement!<br>Relax, they’re 2,000 years old, and the Vatican’s so proud of them that it’s putting them on display.<br><br>Web Exclusive<br>By Barbie Nadeau<br>Newsweek<br>Updated: 12:49 p.m. ET Oct. 14, 2006<br><br>Oct. 13, 2006 - Just inside the Vatican's fortified walls, directly below the street connecting its private pharmacy and its members-only supermarket, lies a 2,000-year-old graveyard tered with bizarre, often disturbing displays of pagan worship. Under one metallic walkway, the headless skeleton of a young boy rests in an open grave. At his side, a marble replica of a hen's egg, which to pagans represented the rebirth of the body through reincarnation. Nearby, countless skeletons lie scattered among the remnants of terra cotta vases used in pagan ceremonies. The underground air is damp with the smell of wet dirt, and the clay tubes used by the pagans to feed their dead with honey and syrup still protrude, fingerlike, from the ground.<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15255311/site/newsweek/">---CONTINUED---</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

Re: Pagan Graves in Vatican Basement! - The cheeky title of

PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:09 am
by rain
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>What exactly is the Vatican trying to tell us?<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>'Nobody expects the Inquisition'<br> <p></p><i></i>