What are the requirements to become a patron saint of archaeology?  I should
like to think this might be a new found way to convince the "haves" to
contribute to the preservation of archaeological sites, knowing their
contribution may buy them a ticket to "sainthood!"

J. Mark Wittkofski
Environmental Specialist II
VDOT
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Subject:        Re: Patron saint (s) of Archaeology

Michael Strutt wrote:
>
> Two patron saints??
>
> Goodness knows there are some days when the profession can use all the
help it
> can get.
>

It might even be three.  I've read at least one report that St. Helena,
mother of Constantine the Great, is also the patron saint of
archaeology.

(she walked around what's now Palestine and Israel pointing at spots and
declaring them holy, therefore anticipating National preservation
authorities by 1,500 years)

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Alasdair Brooks
Department of Archaeology
University of York
King's Manor
York
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England, UK
phone: 01904 433931
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"The Buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border"
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