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400-year-old church emerges from the waters in Mexico

June 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

A church dedicated to the apostle James the Greater in the disappeared town of San Juan Quechula in Chiapas, Mexico, was visible due to heat and drought in June 2023. / Credit: Facebook of the City Council of Tecpatán

ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 21, … […]

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Archaeologists uncover early Christian church with ornate mosaic in Jericho

January 13, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

A view of modern-day Jericho, the site of a recently uncovered sixth-century church. / Tamar Hayardeni|Wikimedia Commons|GFDL

Boston, Mass., Jan 13, 2023 / 14:00 pm (CNA).
A team of Israeli archaeologists has discovered a sixth-century Byzantin… […]

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Archaeologists prepare to open ‘tomb of Jesus’ midwife’ to public

December 20, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

Salome (right) and the midwife "Emea" (left), bathing the infant Jesus, are common figures in Orthodox icons of the Nativity of Jesus; here in a 12th-century fresco from Cappadocia. / Public Domain

Washington D.C., Dec 20, 2022 / 14:4… […]

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St. Peter’s house believed to have been found on shore of Sea of Galilee 

August 24, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

The el Araj archaeological site located on the shores of the Sea of Galilee in Israel, believed to be ruins of a church built over the the home of Sts. Peter and Andrew / Steven Notley

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 24, 2022 / 13:14 pm (CNA).
A… […]

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Inside the search for Polish Catholic sisters killed by the Red Army and on the path to beatification

June 4, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

Religious sisters view remains discovered at a site in Gdańsk, northern Poland. / Poszukiwania IPN.

Warsaw, Poland, Jun 4, 2021 / 03:10 am (CNA).
Sr. Maria Gunhilda was recovering from tuberculosis at a hospital in Orneta, northern Poland, when … […]

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