Posted on 06/29/2011 5:46:53 AM PDT by Not gonna take it anymore
After St. Peter died upside down on a cross in the Circus of Caligula and Nero, the surviving Christians obtained his body and buried him quickly nearby, on the steeply sloping Vatican Hill to the north of the Circus. That hill had become a makeshift graveyard four months earlier after the fire of Rome had killed so many residents of the metropolis that their loved ones began to use any open spot they could find on the roadsides radiating outside the city. . . .
When the tropaion of Peter was found underneath the high altar during archaeological escavations in 1941, there was great rejoicing, because it matched what Gaius had written at the end of the second century. Even more exciting was the fact that they found bones in what was clearly Peter’s tomb underneath the victory monument.
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Learned a lot when I read this. I knew about his bones but not about the rest of the story.
Read the whole thing.
Thanks for posting. I was familiar with most of the facts, but this was very enlightening.
Just received an email about The Bones of St. Peter,
Available July 15th, 2011 from Sophia Institute Press.
Should be a fascinating read.
“Upon this rock” takes a very literal meaning.
The Rock is Christ.
Yet another book I’ll have to get. :-)
Just finished reading: The Jewish Roots of the Eucharist.
Wonderful book.
““Upon this rock” takes a very literal meaning.
The Rock is Christ.”
Thank you for your own personal interpretation of Scripture.
It has no more weight than that.
Have a good day.
I have to read it.
Finished Scott Hahn’s on the Mass and Revelation and was astounded by the beauty of it all.
If you’re ever in Rome, you have to take a scavi tour. We took the tour and were escorted by a Vatican priest to see the excavations below the Vatican, which includes St. Peter’s tomb. It was fascinating. I expected our priest would be Italian but ironically he was from Mississippi. The previous day was a bit more interesting when we had an audience with the Pope (JPII) and kissed his ring. Afterward, people were clawing at us like we were rock stars.
If you had kissed him on the cheek that may have been love or veneration but to kiss a piece of jewelry that he wears or one of his feet, is worship...
I certainly hope the last guy to kiss that ring before you didn't have AIDS, or Tuberculosis or something...
If I was to have a meeting with your pope, I likely would say, hey, how ya doin' Joe???
Now Joe is supposed to represent something or someone out of the Bible...Here's what Peter thought about someone kissing his ring or his feet...
Act 10:25 And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.
Act 10:26 But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.
Had Peter been sitting on that throne at the Vatican (scratch that, Peter would never have set on a throne) and someone knelt to kiss his ring or his feet, Peter would have flipped backwards out of the chair and told you to get up and stop it...
It ought to be crystal clear to anyone who reads and believes the scripture that your pope and the Apostle Peter have no connection with each other...
While I disagree that the "rock" that Christ was talking about was Peter, I have to admit that it's actually stunning on just how literally this passage has came to pass. It's a perfect example of God's faithfulness to see that all of His word is fulfilled, even the parts we think of as allegorical.
God is worthy to be praised, for He is faithful.
Matthew 16:18
Matthew 21:42
Fascinating, thanks:)
“I certainly hope the last guy to kiss that ring before you didn’t have AIDS, or Tuberculosis or something...”
At least he was opposed to homosexuality.
Remind me, what church do you go to Iscool?
yep
The Church Built on Peter
The Twelve Apostles of the Catholic Church: St. Peter [Catholic Caucus]
Church Authority Doesn't "Peter" Out
Radio Replies Second Volume - St. Peter in Rome
Did Peter Have a Successor?
St. Peter and the Primacy of Rome
SAINT PETER'S CHAINS (44 A.D.)
Heart of the Church (St. Peter in Words and Stone)
A Saint for the Rest of Us
On This Rock
WAS ST. PETER IN ROME?
St. Peter and Rome
Did the Apostle Peter Ever Visit Rome?
Occasionally Naive and Fearful, Yet Honest and Capable of Repentance (Profile of St. Peter)
Saint Peter As Seen by His Successor (extraordinary document from B16 on his preaching and papacy)
HOMILIES PREACHED BY FATHER ALTIER ON THE FEAST OF SAINTS PETER AND PAUL
Peter, Witness of the Resurrection (Papal preparations for Easter 2006)
The Fraternal Society of St. Peter on EWTN
Saint Peter and the Vatican, the Legacy of the Popes
Saint Peter and The Vatican - Legacy of the Popes
If you want reference to God as the Rock here are some verses.
Deut. 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
2 Sam. 22:2 And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; 3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
Psalm 18:31, "And who is a rock, except our God."
Isaiah 44:8, "Is there any God besides Me, or is there any other Rock? I know of none."
Rom. 9:33, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and he who believes in Him will not be disappointed."
1 Cor. 3:11, "For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ,"
1 Cor. 10:4, "and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock (petras) which followed them; and the rock (petra) was Christ."
1 Pet. 2:8, speaking of Jesus says that he is "A stone of stumbling and a rock (petra) of offense"; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed."
LOL. Maybe that's how you worship, but that's not the definition of worship for others.
I certainly hope the last guy to kiss that ring before you didn't have AIDS, or Tuberculosis or something...
Some people go through life being afraid of everything.
If I was to have a meeting with your pope, I likely would say, hey, how ya doin' Joe???
That's one of the problems with the culture now days. Many people aren't embarrassed about being crass, and are incapable of being respectful. Try that in a courtroom in front of a judge sometime and let us know how it works out for you.
And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him. But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.
Don't miss that key phrase "worshipped him". As is consistent with this teaching from Scripture, it is Catholic teaching not to worship a created being.
It ought to be crystal clear to anyone who reads and believes the scripture that your pope and the Apostle Peter have no connection with each other...
It is clear, at least to those in the Church of the Almighty La-Z-Boy, where each person is their own Pope descended from the Apostles, but where the Catholic Pope can't possibly have any connection with the Apostles. Don't break your neck kissing your own foot.
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