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Verifying the bones of St Ambrose A forensic team has analysed the relics of 4th-century St Ambrose. Gregory DiPippo, writing for the New Liturgical Movement, reported that the relics were found to be authentic and that the findings appeared to confirm the accuracy of the oldest known portrait of the saint.
“In a letter to his elder sister Marcellina (also a saint), Ambrose speaks of an intense pain which he experienced in his right shoulder, and difficulty of movement, caused by a fracture of the right clavicle which he suffered in his youth, and which never properly healed. The presence of this fracture is confirmed by the examination,” DiPippo wrote.
