Accounts state that Peter was crucified upside down ... in his text Theophany (A.D. 333), wrote that the apostle had been honored with “a splendid tomb before the city, a tomb to which ...

According to tradition, St. Paul was beheaded the same day St. Peter was crucified. Constantine didn’t forget St. Paul — he built a basilica over the apostle’s grave on the Via Ostia.

Who officiates at the wedding? St. Peter. The apostle is then crucified upside down as per his request: “To die as Our Lord did is more than I deserve.” To which the pagan Praetorian guardsman ...

Peter is believed to have been crucified in Rome under Emperor Nero Augustus Caesar — crucified upside down at his own request, believing himself unworthy to be crucified upright as Jesus was.

At Nero's command, the Apostle Peter was crucified on June 29, A.D. 67. He asked his tormenters to crucify him upside-down, wishing by this to portray a difference between his own sufferings and the ...

Peter himself was among the Christian martyrs during Nero's reign. He is believed to have been crucified, head down, on the Vatican hill. Constantine, the first Christian emperor, had an early ...