Word: cianfarra
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...great basilica. An official account of these secret labors is reported to be in preparation, perhaps to be made public at the beginning of the Holy Year of 1950. Delicate Matter. Last week the New York Times front-paged a long dispatch from its able Vatican reporter, Camille Cianfarra, indicating that not only had St. Peters' tomb been discovered but his bones as well. They were buried, Cianfarra had heard, in no bronze and gold...
Instead, St. Peter's 1,900-year-old bones were said to have been found in a plain terra cotta urn less than 20 feet below the floor of the cathedral, surrounded by scattered gold coins of the period when Peter died. Since their discovery, Reporter Cianfarra was told, the bones have been guarded by the Pope himself, in the private chapel next to his study. As the Italian press took off with a whir of speculation, the Vatican was significantly careful neither to confirm nor deny the New York Times story. Summarizing an article titled "Premature News...