Posts Tagged ‘St. Peter’s relics’

Vatican doubts St Peter’s remains are in a forgotten tomb

Thursday, June 3rd, 2021
St. Peter’s remains

St Peter’s remains may have been buried in catacombs under the Mausoleum of St Helena. And they could still be there, according to a paper published recently by Italian researchers. The claims were made in “The Search of St Peter’s Memory ad catacumbas in the Cemeterial Area ad Duos Lauros in Rome,” published in early Read more

Pope Francis gives relics of St Peter to Orthodox patriarch

Monday, July 8th, 2019

A reliquary containing bone fragments believed to belong to St Peter passed from the Vatican’s safekeeping to Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople last week. “For us, this was an extraordinary and unexpected event that we could not have hoped for,” said Archbishop Job of Telmessos who received the relics on Bartholomew’s behalf. Job had Read more