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 ...

Peter’s behavior appears outspoken (he has far more quotes in the Gospels than any other apostle) and fervent ... It was there that Peter was crucified (some say upside down) during the ...

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.

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 ...

Chiwetel Ejiofor is in talks to play Peter the Apostle in the Weinstein’s Company ... Peter is believed to have been crucified in Rome under Emperor Nero Augustus Caesar, crucified upside ...

Though Jesus had already been crucified and risen from the dead ... of Him and the third was when Jesus established Peter as the chief apostle.” In Matthew 16:18, Jesus says, “And I tell ...

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 ...

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.