Text transcribed from caption: C-31630 ST. ANDREW RELIC RETURNED TO ORTHODOX VATICAN CITY -- Pope Paul VI sits before altar holding a gold reliquary containing the famed relic of St. Andrew the Apostle during ceremonies in St. Peter's Basilica before its return to the Orthodox Church in Greece. On either side of the pontiff are some of the 2, 300 Fathers of the Vatican Council who participated in the services. Flown to Greece, the relic -- skull of the Apostle -- was escorted by a delegation headed by Augustin Cardinal Bea, president of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. On its arrival, the relic and its escorts received a warm welcome from Metropolitan Constantine of Patras, in whose diocesan cathedral the skull will be enshrined. After some 500 years in the St. Peter's grottoes, the relic was returned to the Orthodox by the Pope as a gesture of "brotherly love." Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-9E-64-NAB)
