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Tradition that places peter in the eternal city, nickola densi has come to sebastian, central rome. >> i'm in a particular part of sebastian right now. and used to be called the memorial of apostle. that was an ancient basilica and alongside one part of the basilica there was a dining hall where people would do feasts for dead ancestors on particular days and by the fourth century, we know that they started coming on the feast day associated with peter, and they would scratch things into the walls, and we can still see the walls today. and deep beneath us when people were first excavating this...

Oral tradition about thomas going to india is just how similar all of the stories are. we don't often find these kinds of similar traditions in any particular region. particularly a region so far away from where thomas started. the fact that everyone tells the same story about thomas for 1,500 years suggests that there might be a historical kernel of truth here. >> according to tradition, thomas sets off on what will be his final journey. the acts of thomas also says the apostle moves on. >> he moves to another kingdom. he starts doing the same thing in the kingdom. he baptizes people and peop...

It's coming out at 250 to 340 a.d. so it's old, but it's not as old as st. peter. so it's not st. peter the apostle, george, who is it? >> it may be a case of mistaken identity. there was another martyr kled s -- called st. peter, just not the apostle. however, this doesn't get us closer to resolving the mystery whether st. peter visited rome, or what the status of the vatican bones are. for that, we need to go and sample that material. >> but with no access to the bones found beneath the vatican, it's impossible to say definitively if peter really came to rome. for many, it remains a historic...

Where thomas started his mission to bring the teachings of jesus to india? >> we know that there were jewish communities there in india and that part of india as part of the trade networks early on for the first century. >> one of the important strands of thomas' work is the fact that he didn't come to minister to the jewish community. >> this is my body. >> this is my body. >> because as a jew himself, he felt that he is bringing this new way of relating with god. >> i think thomas would make the perfect apostle because he represents someone that had to go through a process in order to get to...

Sensation. >> 2013 was a year of faith and as part of an extra kind of reward for pilgrims who had come, pope francis displayed these nine bones and he's essentially making the claim he's holding right there the bones of the person who founded the church in rome, st. peter. >> the revelation of st. peter's bones makes headlines around the world. >> this is something that has never happened before. the vatican this morning publicly displayed what's believed to be bone fragments from st. peter an apostle of jesus christ and the world's first pope. >> for most faithful catholics, they had no idea...