Do These Bones Belong to The Brother of Jesus?
Published February 4th, 2021 - 10:04 GMT
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Various sources have claimed James was Jesus' brother or half-brother
For more than 1,500 years Catholics have made pilgrimage to Rome's Santi Apostoli Church to venerate two apostles, St. Philip and St. James the Younger - who is said to have been Jesus' brother.
Bones believed to belong to the martyred saints are enshrined at the basilica and each encasing bears the name of the saint.
But now archaeologists say skeletal fragments enshrined at the church are too recent to have come from the time of Jesus Christ.