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...site of the shrine to North America's eight Roman Catholic saints (TIME, April 7; July 7, 1930), excavators had discovered two complete skeletons and the skull of a third. Archeologist Parker was asked to determine their identity. They might be the remains of three of the eight saints???Isaac Jogues, Rene Goupil and John Lalande, Jesuit missionaries?who were slain near Auriesville by Iroquois Indians in the middle of the 17th Century...
...referring to Brigham Young as " the founder of Mormonism," (TIME, July 2) was in error. Mormonism?the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints???was founded by Joseph Smith, whose parents and grandparents were seers and diviners, at Manchester, N. Y., in 1830. Instructed, he said, by revelation, Smith supposedly dug up a " supplement to the New Testament" written on thin gold plates, and known as The Book of Mormon. On the strength of this "revelation," which declared him to be "God's prophet, entitled to all obedience," Smith founded the Mormon body...