On Saturday, experts will examine two ossuaries – small chambers where dead are buried – in the latest attempt to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of a teenage Italian girl 36 years ago.
The first attempt on 11 July exhumed two tombs a tip-off had said might contain Emanuela Orlandi’s remains.
Orlandi’s family hopes the search at the Vatican’s Pontifical Teutonic College holds the key to a mystery that has gripped Italy since 1983.
Andrea Tornielli in an editorial for The Vatican News wirtes on the Vatican’s wish for clarity in the mystery of Emanuela Orland, the fifteen-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee who mysteriously disappeared in the centre of Rome in June 1983.
In it Tornielli writes that the recent opening of the two tombs in the Teutonic Cemetery inside the Vatican show the readiness of the Holy See to help shed light on this case that has puzzled many for all these years.
He writes that the accuracy of the investigations and technical surveys, the decision to have DNA tests done on the eventual remains, the technical expertise with which the operations were carried out under the guidance of the Promoter of Justice and the coordination of the Vatican’s Gendarmerie Corps led by Domenico Giani, clearly demonstrate the will of the Holy See to take the family’s request seriously.
He adds that the fact that the two tombs were devoid of remains has triggered new questions about the resting place of the two noblewomen who died two centuries ago. However, the attempt to shift the focus, aiming to involve the Holy See as regards the whereabouts of those remains is misleading.
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