{"id":10445,"date":"2017-09-08T14:15:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T14:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=10445"},"modified":"2017-09-08T14:15:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T14:15:55","slug":"secret-vatican-parch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/secret-vatican-parch\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Secret&#8217; Vatican Parchment&#8217;s Purple Spots Decoded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>From Livescience:<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.purch.com\/h\/1400\/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5saXZlc2NpZW5jZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA5NS8xMjMvb3JpZ2luYWwvYW5jaWVudC1zY3JvbGwtMy5qcGc=\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>About 800 years ago, a teenage soldier named Laurentius Loricatus accidentally killed a man. He spent the next 34 years in a cave in Italy atoning for his crime, burning his face with a hot iron and wearing a hooked chain-mail shirt directly on his skin as penance.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Loricatus&#8217; story is known today because the villagers near his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/38035-most-controversial-miracles.html\">cave petitioned for his sainthood<\/a>\u00a0on a 16-foot-long (5 meters) parchment that now resides\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/48067-pirate-tale-revealed-in-vatican-archives.html\">in the Vatican Secret Archives<\/a>\u00a0in Vatican City. However, much of the scroll has been damaged by mysterious purple spots \u2014 and the spots are similar to ones that mar\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/60111-medieval-gospel-animal-proteins.html\">parchments made of animal skins<\/a>\u00a0all over the world, said Luciana Migliore, an ecotoxicologist at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em> <strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/60341-secret-vatican-manuscript-purple-spots-decoded.html\">For Full Story<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/06\/04\/tropical-rains-possible-tornadoes-threaten-half-us.html?intcmp=hpbt1\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">]<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em> <strong>[Return to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/\">www.spiritdaily.com]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\"><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Michael%20H.%20Brown\/Documents\/My%20Webs\/indexhold.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/angellily.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\"><em>Pray always for purity and love<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large;\">+++<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"uncategorized\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1504880129\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"&#8216;Secret&#8217; Vatican Parchment&#8217;s Purple Spots Decoded\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Livescience: About 800 years ago, a teenage soldier named Laurentius Loricatus accidentally killed a man. 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