Word: guarducci
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Professor Margherita Guarducci, 56, a slender, youthful-looking spinster who is professor of Greek epigraphy at Rome University, announced that she had found in these graffiti strong new evidence that St. Peter had been buried where tradition has placed...
Mystical Code. For 5½ years Dr. Guarducci and her sister Maria pored over the strange crisscross of signs and letters in the grottoes beneath the altar, comparing them with those in the catacombs in and near Rome. Gradually, the searchers began to find significant repetitions, and meanings began to take shape...
...symbol in various combinations occurs again and again in the crypt beneath the confession altar, says Dr. Guarducci. "Everyone naturally expected to find Peter's name spelled out and was disappointed not to find it. But it is there in monogram form, with the E placed at the foot of the P to make it look like a key." The symbol she described looks something like this...
Buried Here. In one place, on the so-called "Red Wall" running north and south in the excavations and dating to about 160 A.D., Dr. Guarducci sees something still more significant. Under the Greek letters for P, E, T and R are some letters that could be an abbreviation of the Greek word enesti. Taken together, the letters would mean "Peter is buried here...
Last week Dr. Guarducci presented the weighty, three-volume record of her findings to Pope John as a name-day present on the feast of St. Joseph (the Pope's baptismal name). Said she: "He thanked me and promised he would read it carefully...