Since there are three foreskins from Jesus circumscison floating around
churches in Europe, feathers from the wings of Michael the Archangel in
India and a piece of Marys wedding dress in Pittsburg PA of all places, the
skeleton of John the Baptist as a child does not surprise me :-).
The Pardoner's Tale was right.

Joe Zias, Curator of Anthropology/Archaeology

On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Elizabeth Bacchetti wrote:

> The retired Director of the High Musem of Art in Atlanta, Gudmund Vigel,
> absolutely swears that he was shown a small skeleton in a museum in the
> middle east where he was told (presumably with a straight face) that the
> skeleton was that of John the Baptist as a child!!!
>
> Now THAT is an oddity.
>