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Public Release: 30-Nov-2017 University of Texas at Austin IMAGE: A page from the Coptic translation of the First Apocalypse of James from the Coptic Museum in Cairo, Egypt. Digitized by Claremont College. Credit: Image of artifact from the Nag Hammadi Library, Oxford University. AUSTIN, Texas -- The first-known original Greek copy of a…
Femur believed to be from Jesus’s brother for more than 500 years by the Catholic Church is actually from a person hundreds of years younger, study reveals A femur supposedly belonging to St. James the Younger has been in Santi Apostoli Church since the sixth century James is believed to have been stoned to death in 60 AD Radiocarbon dating of the bone indicate it dates to between 214 and 340 AD Various sources have claimed James was Jesus' brother or half-brother Other bones, reportedly belonging to St. Philip, were too contaminated to date
Do These Bones Belong to The Brother of Jesus? Published February 4th, 2021 - 10:04 GMT (Shutterstock/ File Photo) Various sources have claimed James was Jesus' brother or half-brother For more than 1,500 years Catholics have made pilgrimage to Rome's Santi Apostoli Church to venerate two apostles, St. Philip and St. James the Younger - who is said to have been Jesus' brother. Bones believed to belong to the martyred saints are enshrined at the basilica and each encasing bears the name of the saint. But now archaeologists say skeletal fragments enshrined at the church are too recent to ...