A significant correction ought to be made to Robert Mickens’ account of the discovery of the bones of St Peter (Letter from Rome, 16 November). I understand that it was not that “a Vatican labourer had removed other bones from a niche in the necropolis and taken them home in a shoebox”, but that one evening, a few days after the archaeologists had noticed a small crack in the Graffiti wall, the foreman, Segoni, on the orders of Mgr Kaas, St Peter’s administrator and leader of the archaeological team, widened the crack and removed white bones from the cavity. He placed them in a wooden box, and stored it with others in a small room behind the chapel of St Columba. The archaeologists were not informed. Apparently Mgr Kaas was in the habit of going round the excavatio