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.

According to church history, the apostles Peter and Paul arrived ... A different tradition records that Peter was killed by crucifixion, placed upside down by his own choice, as a symbol that ...

“These 12 men are called the apostles and it is clear in the ... 8 tells about the crucifixion of Peter in Rome. Peter was the first Bishop of Rome. He served in that role until his martyrdom ...

He was the chief apostle, but his flesh was weak ... depiction of Peter’s martyrdom in 1601 painting, “The Crucifixion of St. Peter.” In it, an aging Peter has been nailed to a wooden ...

PHILLIPS: Peter the Apostle was crucified on Vatican Hill. Feeling unworthy to be crucified like his Savior, Jesus Christ, he requested to be crucified upside down. Peter's remains were buried on ...

The archaeologists have dubbed the site the "Church of the Apostles ... by the Basilica of St. Peter on Vatican Hill in Rome, over the place where he was crucified. According to the excavators ...

Each of these Apostles was faithful in their own way. Peter was part of the mother church ... Peter denied that he even knew Jesus at the time of the crucifixion. Paul persecuted the young church ...