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The first scientific test on what is believed to be the remains of the Apostle Paul appears to confirm that they are genuine, the pope said.

Vatican archaeologists have unearthed a sarcophagus believed to contain the remains of the Apostle Paul that had been buried beneath Rome's second largest basilica.

Pope Benedict XVI is showing he has humour and knows how to work a crowd, traits the public rarely saw during his quarter-century as the stern German guardian of the church’s conservative doctrine.

Looking over the shores where the Apostle Paul preached, the pope ended his odysseys through biblical lands today with an appeal to end the cycle of Middle East violence in the places he once prayed.