Title: The fisherman's tomb
Description: "In 1939, a team of workers beneath the Vatican unearthed an early Christian grave.  This surprising discovery launched a secret quest that would last decades -- a quest to discover the long-lost burial place of the apostle Peter.  From earliest times, Christian tradition held that Peter -- a lowly fisherman from Galilee, whom Christ made leader of his Church -- was executed in Rome by Emperor Nero and buried on Vatican Hill.  But his tomb had been lost to history.  Now, funded anonymously by a wealthy American, a small army of workers embarked on the dig of a lifetime.  The incredible sometimes shocking, story of the seventy-five-year search and its key players has never been fully told -- until now.  The quest would pit one of the twentieth century's most talented archaeologists -- a woman -- against top Vatican insiders.  The Fisherman's Tomb is a story of the triumph of faith and genius against all odds"--Page [4] of cover.
Subjects: Catholic Church, Apostles, Christian antiquities, Archaeologists, Tomb, Tombs, Antiquities, History, Peter, the apostle, saint, Pius xii, pope, 1876-1958
Places: Vatican City, Italy
People: Peter the Apostle, Saint, Pius XII Pope (1876-1958), George Strake (1894-), Margherita Guarducci