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A result they have come to question the integrity of many written accounts from antiquity. The Apostle Peter is martyrdom on the vatican hill is one of them. It marks the dramatic climax of a religious legend but as one of the most powerful stories in church tradition. Some one and a half centuries later a Magnificent Basilica was erected on the vatican you know of the sign believed to be the very spot where peter was buried. Peters basilica is a monument to the apostle and one of the holiest catholic shrines. In the catacombs deep below the church is an Ancient Roman graves a veritable City Of The Dead in which according to legend jesus is first Apostle Simon peter was buried. Peanuts
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Aims and sluicing the twenty sixteen election. And the dozen friends sound like iraq and berlin on behalf of the entire news team thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us the news continues at the top of the hour see that. Letter we were. When we were. Eighty percent of americans at some point in our lives will experience hardship listen up. Double. Binds. Nero murderer and despot a madman on the imperial throne. Whose name is inextricably linked with one of the biggest disasters of the ancient world The Great Fire over a. Hero set rome a light to make room for his own building plans in takes the blame for the fire on the christians ordering the torture and execution of thousands. But scholars today question the legend of nero as the arsonist of rome and down to the initiator of policy of persecution against the christians. To date there is no archaeological evidence to support the theory that the Apostle Peter was ever in rome but there are mounting indications tha
To the emperor by later writers. Nero an eccentric ruler who wanted to be an artist and preferred to live in a world of fantasy. But neither an arsonist nor persecutor of christians. Was. Its july nineteenth in the years sixty four it hasnt rained for days. Rome is
days thousands will die when the smoke clears three quarters of the city will lay in ruins. According to legend the Apostle Peter was in rome at the same time to supervise the citys fledgling Christian Community. Later he would go down in the annals of the Catholic Church is the first Bishop Of Rome. With. Another natori as legend emperor nero himself started the fire as an excuse to rebuild rome to his own liking and to rename the city mirabilis and thats not all. The Mad Megalomaniac watched the conflagration from his palace on the palatine you know merrily singing and playing his life. In need of a scapegoat he blamed the fire on the christians so many indiscriminately and
mercilessly crucified. Because of peter was also