Hi, I'm Edwards Three, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life. In January of 2020 a unique once in a lifetime opportunity began to unfold in the city of Rome at the great

Basilica of St Paul outside the walls. Now maybe you're

familiar with this Basilica, maybe you've been there before, it has a rich history

going all the way back to the 300s, those early years right when Christianity was finally

liberated in the Roman Empire and and they can start building these great

churches they chose to build this amazing church right here at this spot and

when you walk into the church today you can see some of the

structures that go all the way back to the 300s a.D that's over 17 hundred years it's

amazing but my friends it gets even better because the reason they built a Basilica over this very spot in Rome

is because of the great tomb that resided there. They wanted to build this Basilica over the

tomb of the great apostle St Paul.

So when you go to the crypt underneath the main altar you could see the tomb of St. Paul and pray there.

It's amazing, but in January of 2020, there was a unique opportunity if you went to this

Basilica because on that day or it was about a week or so they actually had the body of another

great early church leader, the disciple of

St. Paul was there. St. Timothy's body was there in St. Peter's Basilica right

next to the tomb of St. Paul.

So it's kind of like there was this little reunion now,

of course, Peter and Paul are reunited in heaven.

They're in the community of Saints,

but their bodies were close together

and you can kind of imagine what that was like

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