crucifixion of St. Peter tagged posts

December 7, 2013 / Posted in  Bishop of Rome, Church history, crucifixon, Papacy, Roman Catholicism

1. Abstract
2. Background
3. Thesis
4. Review of Literature
5. Creation of a myth
6. Antethesis
7. Synthesis
8. Bibliography
9. End Notes

Abstract

According to Bruno Bartoloni’s book The Ears of the Vatican, there is a curse that is 1000 years old on the bones alleged to be those of Simon Peter bar Jonas, popularly known as St. Peter.  Bartolini wrote: ¹

“No pope had ever permitted an exhaustive study, partly because a 1,000-year-old curse attested by secret and apocalyptic documents, threatened anyone who disturbed the peace of Peter’s tomb with the worst possible misfortune.”

What the possible misfortune consists of is not detailed, nor is the “secret and apocalyptic documents...

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November 3, 2011 / Posted in  Bible, Church history, crucifixon, Roman Catholicism

Little is known about the man many call Peter the Fisherman--but was he real? Outside of the Bible there are no other contemporary records, and those written in the first and second centuries CE have been proven or under continued scrutiny as forgery. What is the evidence?Read More