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>> and they were right. >> of course, they were. >> the man no longer known as buck naked had been able to build a new life for himself in mexico. >> and even played the occasional gig. >> it was in vera cruz, mexico. to bring him more money and he was teaching music to kids at a music school down there. id fly up to dulles airport and then to kansas and change planes so they couldnt track how i was going and how i was getting to him or wed meet in other cities. i never flew directly to him so, ...

Job, is beating the odds by pushing past his brush with death. we see how he is going beyond the call of duty. >> reporter: colorado detective, dan bright, can no longer rush out the door with the rest of his s.w.a.t. team, but his devotion to duty has not faltered. officers were called to a denver suburb with reports of a suicidal man, dangerously close to a middle school and hospital before the officer shot and killed the suspect. investigators say the gunman used an ak-47 to spray bullets. >>...

But despite the legends in the various religious beliefs surrounding the place the people of havana played safe and built powerful walls and well fortified citadels to protect themselves from infidels and conquerors and pirates. history doesnt record the fate of that governor of havana who set out to look for the source of eternal youth was he just too gullible or did he fall under the spell of another woman at any rate his wife went blind and spent the rest of her life waiting patiently for his...

>> the body is taken to josephs tomb and prepared for burial. >> when nicodemus is willing to get involved is in the burial. hes supplying really very expensive products to be used in the process of embalming the body. >> first century jewish law said that to touch a dead body would make you unclean. for joseph and nicodemus to go through the process of preparing jesus for burial, there had to have been tremendous love and devotion, just to care for him. >> a rock is rolled across the entrance t...

He is the only president in history who has confessed to sexual assault. >> i just start kissing them. its like a magnet. you just kiss. and when youre a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. >> whatever you want. >> grab them by the [ bleep ]. >> was john kelly stunned by that? was john kelly wash his hands after he shakes hands with donald trump, the hand that -- john kellys stream of consciousness about the loss of what is sacred in our society continued. >> life. the dignity of life...

It became a global phenomenon, when italian secondo pia first took the worlds first photograph of the shroud. >> all of a sudden, a negative image of the man of the shroud pops out at him. its like staring at the face of jesus. it suddenly turns the shroud from an object of religious devotion to an icon of scientific obsession. if you prove that the shroud of turin is real, youre proving that jesus christ existed. >> in 1978, former u.s. air force physicist john jackson from the shroud of turin ...

People were familiar with the horrors of roman crucifixion. >> the cross is an instrument of capital punishment. and its quite amazing. its one of the big stories of early christianity that the instrument of the execution and torture of jesus christ, over time, becomes the primary symbol of jesus christ. >> one of the key factors in the change is helenas pilgrimage to find the true cross. it changes the cross to something that actually becomes something tangible that people want to think about a...

Together, they would fill a ship. >> yet scripture says that just one man, jesus, was able to carry it on his shoulders. >> there were a lot of people who were speaking out about the devotion of relics as something which is absurd and disgusting. and that really thought that people had lost touch with the true faith. >> the true cross had the power to divide christianity. and the question remained, could the legend be real? high in the cantabrian mountains of northern spain lays the monastery of...

It changes the cross to something that actually becomes something tangible that people want to think about as part of their devotion. >> as fragments spread around the world, they will also help turn christianity from an underground cult into a global religion. >> pieces of the true cross were almost used like trading cards. this was a way to gain favor with a bishop here or an aristocrat, a prince over there. >> if you share the true cross with someone, you are sharing power with them because t...

Sincere devotion. >> but pushing james from the walls doesnt kill him. ancient texts record that the final blows come when hes stoned to death and his body is buried on the spot where he falls. in accordance with jewish custom of the time, one year after his death, james bones would have been collected and interned in an ossuary. >> i think it is likely that james body was claimed by his followers and buried. there was considerable support from within the city of jerusalem right across the board...