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Published online 5 September 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070903-7
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Saint's robes carbon dated
Relics of St Francis of Assisi unveiled.
Four Franciscan churches in central Italy claim that they each hold a habit of St Francis of Assisi, the friar who founded the Franciscan order in the early 1200s. Carbon dating has now substantiated one of those claims, and helped to shore up a story from the church's history many centuries later.
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