Saints buried alive in ancient Rome

We have sarah snow to thank for this news story. Thank you Sarah Cripes, you're welcome SW I just was dumbfounded when I'd tried every trigger word and could not find it Thank you Apparently, they were martyred by being buried in a salt mine. Can they do any analysis on the bones which would substantiate this?

Buried alive. Could have been worse though under the Romans. Very interesting: actual saints.

Try using more words with capital letters, Umbrella Squad. I hope that perhaps you might think about chilling out a bit. If that is to happen, then so be it. I fear not my God....why do you fear "yours" so much? None of the "organized" Churches of this world speak for God....neither does Sarah Palin or George Bush or Pat Robertson. God is just and he is fair...our future "is" in his hands. About your so called "Rapture Thing". Not the "people" who wrote and edited the Bible or the (new testament), nor the "people" who "allegedly" hear him speak, can speak for him......and they most definitely ... [More]

Well, you do need a little leap of faith for this i guess. There are still issues obviously, as they state "He conceded there was no way to identify the skeletons with complete certainty". They take some pretty big leaps too with "The age of the female skeleton suggested that they were still a virgin, as Daria had been". Because shes aged 20 (approx.), then to them that suggest shes a virgin.

The dating evidence is at least in the ball park. Can they do analysis on the bones, to prove salt mine theory?

The age of the female skeleton suggested that they were still a virgin, as Daria had been.Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1378866/Tests-relic-bones-support-legend-Christian-saints-buried-alive-Ancient-Rome.html#ixzz1KWi3BfFY Bones never suggest anything of a such, they can only prove if the body has been pregnant (in the case of a woman) or not.... A single rib was taken from each body and ground into a fine powder for a carbon dating test which showed the bones dated back to between 80AD and 340AD.Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1378866/Test... [More]

I think it's sad that their definition of "virgin" is a "female that never gave birth"... Good Lord, man, you can't determine sexual activity from a skeleton outside of the possibility that the person's skeletal structure wasn't deformed by the intruduction of very large item/items. This is crap science.

So can anything be determined through the bones to show that they may have lain in a salt mine?

Interesting...

Funny how the ancient Romans punished people for spreading Chrisitianity...while they themselves also believed and prayed to false gods....