Author searches for the tombs of the apostles.(IN THE BEGINNING)

National Catholic Reporter | May 25, 2007 | Copyright

ROME -- Tom Bissell was hiking through a village in Kyrgyzstan, when an old Russian woman offered to take him to see the tomb of St. Matthew. "I remember thinking: 'The tomb of Matthew? I thought he was buried in Jerusalem or Italy or somewhere like that,'" Bissell recalled.

The woman led Bisseil to the ruins of a monastery next to Lake Issyk Kul, where according to local legend the saint's relics were transported by Armenian monks in the fifth century. "That planted the seed," Bissell said. He began to wonder about the rest of the apostles. He's now working on a ...

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