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...Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica, reserved for the rare event, had been walled up for a quarter of a century. Just before midnight on Christmas Eve, Pope Paul VI stood before it and tapped it three times with a silver hammer. With that, workmen lowered the massive door on pulleys, chunks of broken masonry fell, and prelates washed the threshold and doorposts. After a prayer, Paul walked through the doorway into St. Peter's as cardinals, bishops, nuns, priests and lay people streamed in behind him. The Holy Year of 1975, with its theme of "renewal...
...most serious case to come before the world's most forgotten court since 1929, and at first there was some predictable confusion. Although the trial was supposed to be public, most of the reporters who were able to find the obscure tribunal behind St. Peter's Basilica were turned away before the clerk could cry, "In the name of the Holy Spirit and the reigning Pontiff Paul VI!" When defense lawyers protested that their clients' rights had been violated because they had been interrogated without counsel, the court's three majestically robed and tasseled judges first...
Other discoveries include an early Christian basilica more than 200 feet long, 40 graves dug into the ruins of the church, and important sculptures of the Lydians, rulers of the ancient city...
...expedition unearthed a number of other important finds, including an early Christian basilica of the time of Constantine, 40 graves dug into the ruins of the church and Lydian sculptures, jewelry and pottery, George M.A. Hanfmann, professor of Archaeology, said...
...discovery of the Christian basilica shows that Sardis had a large Christian community by 350 A.D. "It is the earliest church we have yet discovered at Sardis," Hanfmann said. "It is significant...