Recent restoration work in the church of Santa Maria in Cappella, in Trastevere (Rome), have brought to light, inside a medieval altar, two olle (Roman pots) containing the (alleged) relics of some early popes, including St. Peter. Bone-fragments that therefore add to those preserved in the Vatican underground.

New relics of St. Peter?
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