LOUISVILLE, Ky. (CNS) – A team of researchers has been studying the skeletal remains of martyrs kept in reliquaries at a Louisville Catholic church, and so far the results seem to confirm information about the two saints passed down over the centuries.

Since 1902, the bones of two martyrs – St. Magnus, a Roman centurion, and St. Bonosa, a young Roman virgin – have flanked the altar at St. Martin of Tours Church. There, the pair, who are believed to have been martyred in the third or fourth century in Rome, have attracted the curious and the faithful alike.

A team of researchers from the University of Louisville began examining the bones in a former chapel at St. Martin.