Saint Peter the Apostle, one of the 12 disciples of Jesus Christ and, according to Roman Catholic tradition, the first pope. Peter, a Jewish fisherman, was called to be a disciple of Jesus at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry. Learn more about Peter’s l
Peter requested and obtained an upside-down crucifixion, with his agonizingly pointed downwards at Rome (67 A.D.). The brutal, anti-Christian Nero was the Roman Emperor at the time. This was recorded by the historian Origen. Peter's remains were placed at a magnificent basilica erected at ...
yet he was certain of the process by which they could request the Saint from He in Heaven- a crucifixion, done upside-down and for three days, with a piece of Saint Peter’s bones replacing that of the sacrificial man.
However, apart from the allusion to Rome in the First Letter of Peter, there is no historical evidence that Peter was Rome’s first bishop or that he was martyred in Rome (according to tradition, he was crucified upside down) during a persecution of Christians in the mid-60s ce. St. ...
Starring Frank Grimes, David Kelly, Angela Harding, Cyril Cusack, Peter O’Toole, Donal McCann, Bryan Murray, Denys Hawthorne, Vinnie McCabe. Set in the Edwardian era. Henrietta Street in Dublin, Ireland served as one of the main locations, where people lived in squalid conditions in the ten...
Do you remember that scene in the firstSpider-Manmovie when Mary Jane kisses Spidey while he’s hanging upside-down? I wonder if she would have done the same or maybe hesitated a bit if Peter had, say, four additional hairy arms attached to his ...
Antipope Paul VI did not have the keys of Peter, but he was given the key to the bottomless pit. He was the one who brought in the smoke of Satan from the great furnace; as he says, from some crack. Jean Guitton, an intimate friend of Paul VI, related what Paul VI said at ...
In 1600 Caravaggio received a commission from Cerasi, the treasurer general for the pope, to create two paintings for his funerary chapel. One of the subjects was the conversion of St. Paul, and the other was the crucifixion of St. Peter. The two works were to hang on the side walls of...