When Michelangelo designed Saint Peter's Basilica he was building over something🇻🇦
He didn't know exactly what. Nobody did. But ancient tradition had always insisted that the great basilica in Rome stood on the site of Peter's martyrdom and burial, that somewhere beneath the marble floors and the papal altars were the bones of the fisherman from Galilee.
In the 1940s Pope Pius XII authorised excavations beneath the basilica floor.
What archaeologists found 20 feet beneath the altar stopped them in their tracks.
A first century necropolis, an ancient Roman cemetery, running directly beneath the length of the basilica. And at the centre of it, beneath the main altar, a monument that ancient sources had described for centuries. Surrounding it were walls covered in ancient graffiti, pilgrims who had come to this spot for centuries scratching prayers and names into the stone.
On one of those walls, in a niche, was a box of bones. And scratched into the red wall beside it in Greek…
Petros Eni.
Peter is here.
The bones were examined. A robust male. Aged between 60 and 70. First century. Wrapped in a gold threaded purple cloth consistent with someone of great honour.
In 1968 Pope Paul VI made the official announcement, the relics of Saint Peter had been identified beneath the basilica that bears his name.
The fisherman who asked to be crucified upside down because he wasn't worthy to die like his Lord, was buried in the dirt beneath what would become the centre of the Christian world.
And for 2,000 years pilgrims have been walking over his grave without knowing it.
Share this with all the “there’s no evidence Peter was EVER in Rome” crowd and those of goodwill might receive it.
"You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church." — Matthew 16:18🇻🇦
Cardinal Ratzinger on the Iraq war: “The concept of a ‘preventive war’ does not appear in the Catechism of the Catholic Church… It was right to resist the war and its threats of destruction. It should never be the responsibility of just one nation to make decisions for the world… Given the new weapons that make possible destructions that go beyond the combatant groups, today we should be asking ourselves if it is still licit to admit the very existence of a ‘just war.’” https://t.co/4vd5a7whhW
En el día de su cumpleaños recordamos como fue que el Pity invitó a Felipe Barrozo a tocar en Intoxicados! Una joya total esta nota.
¡FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS FELIPE!
El Padre Romanelli, héroe cristiano argentino resistiendo en su parroquia de Gaza el genocidio israelí, relata que los sionistas juegan con el tiempo y el desinterés de la prensa (que simula que ya está todo solucionado allí y abandona el tema). Describe el infierno en la Tierra.
Si algo me anclaba a Los Pillos con ese sabor de obra consumada y, sin embargo, sumergida en su propio fulgor, era la silueta de Alejandro Fiori, numinoso, vibrátil, "daemon" eléctrico y ejecutor de su propio relámpago.
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