In this image provided by Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze shows a finger attributed to Galileo Galilei. A Florence museum says, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, two fingers and a tooth believed to belong to Galileo Galilei have been found and will go on display next spring. Three fingers and a tooth were taken from the astronomer's body in 1737 and placed in a container. Paolo Galluzzi, director of the Museum of the History of Science, said a private collector had bought a container at auction containing two fingers and a tooth. The collector contacted Florence cultural officials and the parts and the container were found to match descriptions of the Galileo relics in historical documents. Galileo, who died in 1642, was branded a heretic by the Vatican for saying the Earth revolved around the Sun. In the early 1990's, Pope John Paul II rehabilitated him. AP Photo logo AP Photo 2 months ago

In this image provided by Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze shows a finger attributed to Galileo Galilei. A Florence museum says, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, two fingers and a tooth believed to belong to Galileo Galilei have been found and will go on display next spring. Three fingers and a tooth were taken from the astronomer's body in 1737 and placed in a container. Paolo Galluzzi, director of the Museum of the History of Science, said a private collector had bought a container at auction containing two fingers and a tooth. The collector contacted Florence cultural officials and the parts and the container were found to match descriptions of the Galileo relics in historical documents. Galileo, who died in 1642, was branded a heretic by the Vatican for saying the Earth revolved around the Sun. In the early 1990's, Pope John Paul II rehabilitated him.

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  1. An image of Pope John Paul II hangs on a home's wall that was cracked by an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. A family of five was killed in the home when a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Tuesday.
  2. Msgr. Slawomir Oder, the Vatican official in charge of the process that could lead to Roman Catholic sainthood for John Paul II, speaks next to his book during a news conference in Rome January 26, 2010. The book, called "Why a Saint?" includes some previously unpublished documents and reveals that the late Pope John Paul flagellated himself regularly to emulate Christ's suffering and signed a secret document saying that would resign instead of ruling for life if he became incurably ill, the new book shows.
  3. Monsignor Slawomir Oder, the postulator, or main promoter for John Paul II's canonization, gestures during the presentation of the book "Why He's a Saint", in Rome, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. Pope John Paul II decided to forgive his would-be assassin while he was in the ambulance on his way to the hospital moments after being shot in St. Peter's Square, according to a new book by the Polish prelate spearheading his sainthood case. The revelation is contained in one of the many previously unpublished speeches and memos drafted by John Paul that are contained in the book, including two documents in which he outlined the criteria for which he would resign if he became incapacitated. The book, "Why He's a Saint" also confirms that John Paul practiced self-mortification _ he whipped himself with a belt, even on vacation _ and frequently slept naked on the floor as acts of penitence.
  4. Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, head of the Vatican's saint-making office, gestures during the presentation of the book "Why He's a Saint", in Rome, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. Pope John Paul II decided to forgive his would-be assassin while he was in the ambulance on his way to the hospital moments after being shot in St. Peter's Square, according to a new book by the Polish prelate spearheading his sainthood case. The revelation is contained in one of the many previously unpublished speeches and memos drafted by John Paul that are contained in the book, including two documents in which he outlined the criteria for which he would resign if he became incapacitated. The book, "Why He's a Saint" also confirms that John Paul practiced self-mortification, he whipped himself with a belt, even on vacation, and frequently slept naked on the floor as acts of penitence. The book was written by Monsignor Slawomir Oder, the postulator, or main promoter, for John Paul's canonization cause and was released Tuesday.
  5. Monsignor Slawomir Oder, right, the postulator, or main promoter for John Paul II's canonization, listens to the head of the Vatican's saint-making office Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, during the presentation of the book "Why He's a Saint", in Rome, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. Pope John Paul II decided to forgive his would-be assassin while he was in the ambulance on his way to the hospital moments after being shot in St. Peter's Square, according to a new book by the Polish prelate spearheading his sainthood case. The revelation is contained in one of the many previously unpublished speeches and memos drafted by John Paul that are contained in the book, including two documents in which he outlined the criteria for which he would resign if he became incapacitated. The book, "Why He's a Saint" also confirms that John Paul practiced self-mortification, he whipped himself with a belt, even on vacation, and frequently slept naked on the floor as acts of penitence.
  6. Monsignor Slawomir Oder, the postulator, or main promoter for John Paul II's canonization, gestures during the presentation of the book "Why He's a Saint", in Rome, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. Pope John Paul II decided to forgive his would-be assassin while he was in the ambulance on his way to the hospital moments after being shot in St. Peter's Square, according to a new book by the Polish prelate spearheading his sainthood case. The revelation is contained in one of the many previously unpublished speeches and memos drafted by John Paul that are contained in the book, including two documents in which he outlined the criteria for which he would resign if he became incapacitated. The book, "Why He's a Saint" also confirms that John Paul practiced self-mortification, he whipped himself with a belt, even on vacation, and frequently slept naked on the floor as acts of penitence.
  7. FILE - In this Dec. 19, 1959 file photo, Abdi Ipekci, Chief editor of Turkish newspaper Milliyet, shows his newspaper in his office in Istanbul, Turkey. The release from prison of the Turkish man who shot the pope in 1981, has unsettled many Turks who remember the gunman for killing the journalist Abdi Ipekci. The world knows Mehmet Ali Agca who was released Monday Jan.18, 2010, for his attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II nearly 29-years ago, but his 1979 killing of journalist Abdi Ipekci still resonates in Turkey where fears of high level conspiracy are still voiced about Mehmet Ali Agca who now enjoys his freedom.
  8. FILE - In this 1978 file photo, Abdi Ipekci, Chief editor of Turkish newspaper Milliyet, is seen in his office in Istanbul, Turkey. The release from prison of the Turkish man who shot the pope in 1981, has unsettled Turks who remember the gunman for killing the journalist Abdi Ipekci. The world knows Mehmet Ali Agca who was released Monday Jan.18, 2010, for his attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II nearly 29-years ago, but his 1979 killing of journalist Abdi Ipekci still resonates in Turkey where fears of high level conspiracy are still voiced about Mehmet Ali Agca who now enjoys his freedom.
  9. Lawyers for Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot the Pope, from left, Gokay Gultekin, Melahat Uzunoglu and Yilmaz Abosoglu, show a letter written in Turkish Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010, in Istanbul, Turkey. Agca killed Abdi Ipekci, Chief editor of the newspaper Milliyet, on Feb. 1, 1979, in Istanbul. The release from prison of the Turkish man who shot the pope in 1981, has unsettled Turks who remember the gunman for killing the journalist Abdi Ipekci. The world knows Mehmet Ali Agca who was released Monday Jan.18, 2010, for his attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II nearly 29-years ago, but his 1979 killing of journalist Abdi Ipekci still resonates in Turkey where fears of high level conspiracy are still voiced about Mehmet Ali Agca who now enjoys his freedom.
  10. The man who tried to kill Pope John Paul II, Mehmet Ali Agca, is surrounded by journalists in Ankara January 18, 2010. Agca, who tried to kill Pope John Paul II nearly 30 years ago was released from a Turkish prison on Monday, rekindling the mystery over whether he acted alone or had been hired by a Soviet-era secret service. He served 19 years in an Italian prison for the attack, before being pardoned on the pope's initiative in 2000, but was extradited to serve a sentence in his home country for other crimes including the 1979 murder of a newspaper editor.
  11. The man who tried to kill Pope John Paul II, Mehmet Ali Agca, is surrounded by journalists in Ankara January 18, 2010. Agca, who tried to kill Pope John Paul II nearly 30 years ago was released from a Turkish prison on Monday, rekindling the mystery over whether he acted alone or had been hired by a Soviet-era secret service. He served 19 years in an Italian prison for the attack, before being pardoned on the pope's initiative in 2000, but was extradited to serve a sentence in his home country for other crimes including the 1979 murder of a newspaper editor.
  12. The man who tried to kill Pope John Paul II, Mehmet Ali Agca, is surrounded by journalists in Ankara January 18, 2010. Agca, who tried to kill Pope John Paul II nearly 30 years ago was released from a Turkish prison on Monday, rekindling the mystery over whether he acted alone or had been hired by a Soviet-era secret service. He served 19 years in an Italian prison for the attack, before being pardoned on the pope's initiative in 2000, but was extradited to serve a sentence in his home country for other crimes including the 1979 murder of a newspaper editor.
  13. The man who tried to kill Pope John Paul II, Mehmet Ali Agca, is surrounded by journalists in Ankara January 18, 2010. Agca, who tried to kill Pope John Paul II nearly 30 years ago was released from a Turkish prison on Monday, rekindling the mystery over whether he acted alone or had been hired by a Soviet-era secret service. He served 19 years in an Italian prison for the attack, before being pardoned on the pope's initiative in 2000, but was extradited to serve a sentence in his home country for other crimes including the 1979 murder of a newspaper editor.
  14. The man who tried to kill Pope John Paul II, Mehmet Ali Agca (C), is surrounded by journalists as he enters a hotel in Ankara January 18, 2010. Mehmet Ali Agca, was released from prison in the Turkish capital Ankara on Monday, nearly 30 years after the assassination attempt on St. Peter's Square. Agca served 19 years in an Italian prison for the attack, before being pardoned on the pope's initiative in 2000 and extradited to serve a sentence in Turkey for crimes including the 1979 murder of a newspaper editor.
  15. Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot Pope John-Paul II in Rome in 1981, arrives a hotel after he was released from prison in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. The Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 was released from prison on Monday after more than 29 years behind bars.
  16. The man who tried to kill Pope John Paul II, Mehmet Ali Agca, is surrounded by media as he walks in to hotel in Ankara January 18, 2010. Mehmet Ali Agca, was released from prison in the Turkish capital Ankara on Monday, nearly 30 years after the assassination attempt on St. Peter's Square. Agca served 19 years in an Italian prison for the attack, before being pardoned on the pope's initiative in 2000 and extradited to serve a sentence in Turkey for crimes including the 1979 murder of a newspaper editor.

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