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Stephen Beale Oct 29, Pope Francis kisses the relics of the Apostle Peter on the altar during a mass at St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. It all started with an accident. Your donation is truly essential to the existence of Aleteia! Get Aleteia delivered to your inbox.
Does the church possess the actual bones of St. Peter?
Yes, I would like to receive information from Aleteia partners. Your submission has been received! The oldest thing I learned in elementary school is that our purpose is to know, love and serve God. The second thing that it does is it gives you the ability to see physical relics from the first and second centuries. Just go look under the Vatican. They really did exist.
Peter really was killed in Rome, and there were a lot of really brave people who prayed to him, who sacrificed their lives to transmit this great faith down to us in the 21st century. Michelle Martin writes from Illinois. Confessions of a Catholic Dad Editor's Notebook.
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How did you come to write this book? Did you already know the Strakes when you learned of their involvement? Info on 'The Fisherman's Tomb' Title: Our Sunday Visitor, He has spent much of his life visiting and researching early Christian sites. A former law clerk to Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, he is a senior partner at a large international law firm.
Subscribe now in print or digital. Peter , Relics , Archeology. Planning and understanding the Catholic funeral 7 ways to say 'thanks' to God Young people are leaving the faith. A priest named Antonio Ferrua maneuvered his way onto the excavation team. In , the Ferrua team found what they thought were St.
Help us champion truth, freedom, limited government and human dignity. Ferrua insisted that the earlier bones were St. But Guarducci was convinced that the inscriptions proved otherwise. The conflict over St. The coincidences in the story are remarkable. Finally, the job is half done and who shows up but Guarducci, probably the one person on earth who would have been able to actually discern the meaning of the inscriptions and find Peter?