A bundle of bones found in a pub in Wales almost 140 years ago could prove to be the last remains of an English saint, Roman Catholic bishops believe.
The collection of fragments including part of a skull and leg, found wrapped in a bundle of 17th Century children’s clothing and hidden inside an old trunk in a pub in the village of Holywell, Flintshire, have been known locally for more than a century as the relics of “anonymous martyrs”.
But new tests by forensic pathologists have concluded some of the bones could potentially be a portion of the skeleton of St John Plessington, who was hanged, drawn and quartered at Chester in 1679 for being a Catholic priest.
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