“just as the Colosseum and other places of Christian martyrdom in Rome.” Whether or not the Mamertine Prison was the actual place of Sts. Peter and Paul’s imprisonment, their lives and ...

Restoration of a tiny church in Rome that has ... including Peter, Felix, and Callixtus. But how sure can we be that these are references to these early Christians and not to later people who ...

The 1951 Hollywood version of Quo Vadis, starring Peter Ustinov and Deborah ... as the first persecutor of the Christians by Lactantius. After the Great Fire of Rome in A.D. 64, when rumours ...

is the commemoration of the martyrdom in Rome of the apostles Simon Peter and Paul of Tarsus, celebrated on June 29. As Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI recalled in 2012, "Christian tradition has always ...

When Paul wrote his Letter to the Romans, he had not yet actually been to Rome himself, but he seemed to know several Christians living ... Herodion was helpful to Peter while in Rome and at ...

It is one of the most important churches in Rome ... Sts. Peter and Paul were taken (it was known as “Basilica Apostolorum” before it was dedicated to St. Sebastian) during the Christian ...

Pope Francis to be buried in Saint Mary Major church, not Saint Peter's basilica ... a basilica on the other side of Rome. It's the first time in more than a century that a pope will be buried ...

Widely criticized after the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD, the Emperor Nero tried to divert attention away from his own failings by providing an easy scapegoat: the Christians. Although the ...

Regardless, you'll take in a panorama of Rome's spectacular landscape ... the Wednesday General Audience, when he addresses the crowd in St. Peter's Square with prayers and songs.