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| George, I KNOW you don't really mean to imply that one was just lurking in
| there, trapped all those centuries and waiting to jump out like the genie in
| Aladdin's lamp? Seriously, I'd be interested as well in hearing the results of
| such an excavation. Grosseteste's tomb was opened in the 18th or early 19th
| century, and some episcopal graves in one of the other English cathedrals were
| opened in recent decades (since WWII in any event), but to my knowledge nothing
| since then. Interesting chalices and remains of croziers were found in the
| later excavations; the contents of a saint's tomb might be artistically quite
| valuable.
For those intersted in dotting t's and crossing i's, Grosseteste's
tomb was opened up in November 1782, and then inspected again one
month later by a member of the Royal Society.
Cheers
Jim (who is doing anything and everything to avoid marking first year
papers).
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James R. Ginther
Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
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