No wonder that the Roman Catholic Bishop, Strossniayer, in his great speech against papal infallibility before the Pope and the Council of 1870 said, 'Scaliger, one of the most learned men, has not hesitated to say that St. Peter's episcopate and residence in Rome ought to be classed with ridiculous legends.' To view & Hear Reviews. Nothing is said about them, and only after persistent questioning will the Roman Catholic priest, who acts as guide, tell you that those things (images, etc.) Starting around the end of the second century, Christian pilgrims went to see Peter’s tropaion. By the structure of the writings, it was established by scientists that they were of the days just before the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus in 70 A.D. On the ossuaries were found many names of the Christian of the early Church. People who lived in Jerusalem all their lives and official guides who are supposed to know every inch of the city, however, knew nothing of this discovery, so well was it withheld from the public. "Mark you, all the priests agree that the Vatican and St. Peter's were built over a pagan cemetery....You realize surely that Christians would never bury their dead in a pagan cemetery, and you may be very sure that pagans would never allow a Christian to be buried in their cemetery. "… In spite of the statements by the high Papal authority above and the resultant lesson that should have been learned, the Pope, a year later claimed the Prof. Margherita bones as those of St. Peter. This ancient Christian burial ground shows that Peter died and was buried in Jerusalem, which is easily understandable since neither history nor the Bible tells of Peter’s having been in Rome. The Baptism Series Booklet is available on request or via download. under the large dome and Brandini serpentine columns. 2:1, 8), Peter being mentioned. Other names of early Christians were found on other boxes. But he told us nothing of the discovery. Anyway, another volume will come soon that will demonstrate that the cemetery was Christian and of the first century to the second century A.D. I managed to calm him as I said, “But sir, here are the pictures and you can see the ossuary, among others, with Peter’s name in Aramaic. Joseph Ruysschaert, vice prefect of the Vatican Library, are not convinced by Miss Guarducci's evidence. "There are too many unknowns," he told reporters on a recent tour of the Vatican grottoes, "There is no continuous tracing of the bones. Some accounts suggest a couple others died of natural causes as well, but John’s tradition is the most firmly established. He cannot go against what he had written in 1953, at the time of the discovery of this Christian-Jewish burial ground, nor what he had said to the Franciscan monk about his visit to the Pope. In his letter one can see that he is careful because of the Pope’s admonition to keep this discovery quiet. It was the end of 1950, and a complex series of excavations under St. Peter’s Basilica had recently been completed. BARTHOLOMEW,* at Rome, in the church of Bartholomew Island, on the Tiber. Then the article continues, 'The hundreds of Popes and millions of Roman Catholics who have accepted and venerated the other skull were innocent victims of another early tradition.'. "The Catholic Church says that Peter was Pope in Rome from 41 to 66 A.D., a period of twenty-five years, but the Bible shows a different story. When Pope Pius XII declared the Assumption of Mary to be an article of faith in 1950, the Catholic Church in Jerusalem then quickly sold the tomb of Mary to the Armenian Church. The evidence is abundant; the truth is clear from the Scriptures … Very few, if any, have withstood a Pope and lived (except in these days when everybody seems to withstand him). Paul does not only withstand Peter but he rebukes him and blames him of being at fault…. For a fuller treatment, accessible to the non-specialist, see Jack Fingegan’s The Archaeology of the New Testament (Princeton: Princeton University Press, reprt 1979), pp. Finally after the pictures of the evidence were taken, which was nothing short of a miracle that he allowed us to do so, I complimented him on the marvelous discovery of the tomb of St. Peter in Jerusalem that the Franciscans had made. I wrote to him, however, on March 15, 1960, as follows: “I have spoken with a number of Franciscan priests and monks and they have told me about you and the book of which you are a co-writer. Titus destroyed Jerusalem in 70 A.D. and left it desolate. T he Apostle Peter is one of the great stories of a changed life in the Bible. St. Peter's tomb is near the west end of a complex of mausoleums that date between about AD 130 and AD 300. To make matters more clear, the Bible tells us that Peter was the Apostle to the Jews. 359-375. Saint Peter's tomb is a site under St. Peter's Basilica that includes several graves and a structure said by Vatican authorities to have been built to memorialize the location of Saint Peter's grave. More recently, various scholars, including Emile Puech and most lately Stephan Pfann have questioned the suggestion by Bagatti and Milik (who was a bit more cautious) that the reading of this ossuary fragment is indeed: Shimon bar Jonah–presenting the possibility that Simon Peter, who is known by this rather unusual name in Matthew 16:17, may have been buried in Jerusalem rather than Rome. I consequently determined to go to Jerusalem to see for myself, if possible, that which appeared to be almost unbelievable, especially since it came from priests who naturally, because of the existing tradition that Peter was buried in Rome, would be the last ones to welcome such a discovery or to bring it to the attention of the world. In my 2006 book, The Jesus Dynasty, (pp. They rejected the past rather than expose themselves to the ridicule of the present.' But the tomb of St. Peter is altogether different for they would rather that it never existed, and to buy or sell such a site would be out of the question. So, even if Peter died in Rome, which is out of the question, surely the pagan cemetery under St. Peter's Basilica would be the last place in which he would have been buried…. …, "To make an announcement of such importance when there is absolutely 'no evidence' is rather ridiculous as was also brought out in Time Magazine of October 28, 1957 …. They could be anyone's bones." I showed him the pictures found in this article, but being with him for only a few minutes I therefore could not show him the wealth of material that you have before you in this article. To make matters more clear, the Bible tells us that Peter was the Apostle to the Jews. With that knowledge I approached another priest who warily asked me where I had acquired that information. I therefore went to Rome. He said to do so would cast a reflection on the competency of the priest J. T. Milik, who he knew to be a very able scientist. And yet, even that is unmistakenly recorded in the three words in Aramaic of the ossuary, Simon Bar Jona. . I, too, walked around in a dreamy amazement for about a week for I could hardly believe what I had seen and heard. I told him that a priest had told me. It must, therefore, be concluded that if the whole subject is faced with detached objectivity, the conclusion must inevitably be reached that Peter was never in Rome. The source of this rumor, written in Italian, was not clear; it left considerable room for doubt or rather wonder. However, I continued questioning priests wherever I would find them. Email addresses are confidential. The initial of Christ in Greek was written there which would never have been found in a Jewish, Arab or pagan cemetery. I quote, “I regard Father J. T. Milik as a first class scholar in the Semitic field.” He added, “I do not consider that names on ossuaries are conclusive evidence that they are those of the Apostles.” Nelson Glueck. Strange it was, for since beginning to build the church in 1450 (finished in 1626) they erected St. Peter's Tomb (?) Indeed, according to this way of thinking there must have been another family, with those very names, buried very near “another” Simon bar Jonah. I think the legendary martyrdom of Peter in Rome under Nero has scant historical support, despite the more recent claims of the Vatican to have verified his tomb, and the relics therein, under St. Peter’s Basilica, see “Pope Puts ‘St Peter’s Bones’ on Display at Vatican.” I agree with the work done by Nicola Denzy Lewis, a summary of which you can read here: “The Apostle Peter in Rome?”. … But when I had gathered all the facts in the case, the priests could not deny the discovery of the tomb, but even confirmed it, though reluctantly. The Sword of the Spirit: On the Apostles Peter and Paul. Nonetheless, given the rather narrow chronological window represented by limestone ossuary use in Jerusalem in the one hundred year period before its destruction in 70 CE such identifications with personages mentioned in our New Testament records are possible if not probably. 235-237) I published a photo of an fragment of an 1st century CE limestone ossuary, or burial box, inscribed with the name “Simon bar Jonah,” a rare patronym used by Jesus one time in Matthew 16:17 to refer to Simon Peter: And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! This private Newsletter is sent weekly to subscribers with special news and updates from Dr. Tabor. He is buried in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. One of the most important books we've yet published. "Then in 1965, an archaeologist at Rome University, Prof. Margherita Guarducci, tells of a new set of bones belonging to Peter. But this cave or burial place where the ossuaries were found and which was created and brought about through the natural and disinterested sequence of events, without any reason to change facts or circumstances, was a greater testimony than if there were a witness recorded, stating that Peter was buried there. The most common account, though, is that he was martyred. Then he admitted the point and dropped a little more information. As I have mentioned, I was only able to be with him for a few minutes and was not able to show him but a very small part of the evidence. In the first place, Peter was a Jew, and they had to be buried in their own cemeteries. Here is some of what COGaIC’s Peter Nathan reported in his two-part series:. The Vatican would seem to be on the monsignor's side because so far it has taken no steps to officially recognize the bones as St. Peter's,' continues the article. Tradition has that Peter’s body is contained in a crypt below St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. His family were all stout and short of stature. It was written by P. B. Bagatti and J. T. Milik, both Roman Catholic priests. But a tropaion is not a tomb. It is called Gli Scavi del Dominus Flevit printed in 1958 at the Tipografia del PP. Catholic Saint. 'A thorough account in English of the discoveries beneath St. Peter's was now available … by British archaeologists Jocelyn Toynbee and John Ward Perkins. ." The tomb in which the ossuary was found was part of in a fascinating necropolis of over a five hundred burial tombs that some scholars have identified, in whole or in part, with the early pre-70 CE Jewish-Christian community–that is, Jewish followers of Jesus who lived, died, and were buried as good Jews. "In 1950, just a few years prior to the discovery of the Christian burial ground in Jerusalem, the Pope made the strange declaration that the bones of St. Peter were found under St. Peter's in Rome. …. John the Baptist, Jesus, and the Dead Sea Scrolls: A “Cosmic Messiah” Who Raises the ... 99.99% of Humanity Will Burn in Hell Forever, and Ever, and Ever…, Happy New Year!–at least on the Biblical Hebrew Calendar. Email addresses are confidential. I therefore went to Rome. He therefore wrote me that he leaves the whole explanation of the Aramaic words, “Simon Bar Jona”, to priest Milik…In priest Bagatti’s letter one can see that he is in a difficult position. That Peter the apostle was ever Bishop of Rome has been proved again and again to be an arrant fable. Francescani, in Jerusalem. 2:11. Origen says that Peter felt himself to be unworthy to be put to death in the same manner as his Master . The Garden Tomb at the foot of Golgotha, outside the walls of old Jerusalem, meets the Biblical description perfectly. Also any scientist or chemist knows that you do not have to submit the whole skeleton for testing to determine the age. Excavation was started and there, a large underground Christian burial ground was uncovered. This Aramaic father/son name is attested nowhere else, neither in inscriptions nor in literature. Anyone, including myself, would readily agree with Dr. Glueck that if only the name Simon Bar Jona on the ossuary was all the evidence that was available it would not be conclusive evidence that it was of the Apostle Peter, though it would certainly be a strong indication. The charcoal inscription reads: “Shimon Bar Yonah” which means “Simon [Peter] son of Jonah”. The initial of Christ in Greek was written there which would never have been found in a Jewish, Arab or pagan cemetery. They were found in an ossuary, on the outside of which was clearly and beautifully written in Aramaic, 'Simon Bar Jona.' Other names of early Christians were found on other boxes. Excavation was started and there a large underground Christian burial ground was uncovered. The Discovery of Peter's Tomb in Jerusalem – 1953 By F. Paul Peterson While visiting a friend in Switzerland, I heard of what seemed to me, one of the greatest discoveries since the time of Christ—that Peter was buried in Jerusalem and not in Rome. Peter’s Life Before Christ. I talked to priest Milik, the co-writer of this Italian book, in the presence of my friend, a Christian Arab, Mr. S. J. Mattar, who now is the warden of the Garden Tomb…This priest, Milik, admitted that he knew that the bones of St. Peter are not in Rome. One of their members was spading the ground on this site in 1953, when his shovel fell through. This ancient Christian burial ground shows that Peter died and was buried in Jerusalem, which is easily understandable since neither history nor the Bible tells of Peter’s having been in Rome. Peter had to die and be buried somewhere; and the OVERWHELMING CHRISTIAN TRADITION has been in agreement, from the EARLIEST TIMES, that it was actually in Rome that Peter died. About the year 64, St. Peter was crucified head downward in the Circus, or Arena, of Nero on the Vatican Hill. St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, the traditional burial site of the apostle Peter. But,….while this is the case with Peter the Christian, it can be shown to be by no means doubtful that before the Christian era, and downwards, there was a “Peter” at Rome, who occupied the highest place in the Pagan priesthood. "When Pope Pius XII declared the Assumption of Mary to be an article of faith in 1950, the Catholic Church in Jerusalem then quickly sold the tomb of Mary to the Armenian Church. These trophies marked the apostles’ graves or places of martyrdom and their victory over death. Mat 16:17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. I had asked an elderly official guide where the tomb of St. Peter was. After talking to many priests and investigating various sources of information, I finally was greatly rewarded by learning where I could buy the only known book on the subject, which was also written in Italian. The book of the Acts of the Apostles (in either the Catholic or Protestant Bible) records the following: Peter was preaching the Gospel to the circumcision (the Jews) in Caesarea and Joppa in Palestine, ministering unto the household of Cornelius, which is a distance of 1,800 miles from Rome (Acts 10:23, 24). It went on like that for some time until I got the whole picture, and I was finally directed to where I could see the evidence for myself. After telling him what I thought of the wonderful discovery the Franciscans had made, I asked him plainly, “Do you folks really believe that those are the remains of St. Peter?” He responded, “Yes we do, we have no choice in the matter. The relics were discovered during excavations begun under St Peter's Basilica in the years following the death in 1939 of Pope Pius XI, who had asked to be buried … His public ministry and had converts; and therefore, could not belong to a relative before Peter’s time, since only those who were converted through Christ’s ministry were buried there. It appears that she was protecting her 'Peter's bones' from another possible disaster, which a wrong age would have caused. Box 1442 Hollister, California 95024-1442 Phone: 1-831-637-1875 Fax: 1-831-637-9616truthofgod.org, "God’s Plan for Mankind Revealed—by His Sabbath and Holy Days", Free Book: Appointed Times of Jesus the Messiah, Holy Bible In Its Original Order, 2nd Edition. "This ancient Christian burial ground shows that Peter died and was buried in Jerusalem, which is easily understandable since neither history nor the Bible tells of Peter's having been in Rome. I talked to a Yale professor, who is an archaeologist, and was director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem. “St. However, he quickly recognized the Aramaic words to be “Simon Bar Jona”. How could any scientific study of bones be carried out without first scientifically determining the age of the person, or bones? I will give a lecture on this subject at the Biblical Archaeology Society, 15th Annual Bible and Archaeology Fest, November 16-18, 2012, Chicago, see here for details. Check out this timeline and biography of the life of Peter. To make matters more clear, the Bible tells us that Peter was the Apostle to the Jews. Christians recovered his body and buried it in a nearby cemetery. Queen Elizabeth’s bathroom is a private space, while a church is a public one. Pfann reads the name of the father as BarZillai, the name of a priestly family known to us from the time of David and mentioned in Ezra 2:61. According to later reports, in A.D. 65 Paul of Tarsus was imprisoned in Rome, beheaded, and then buried in the family tomb of a devout Roman … As I have mentioned, I had a very agreeable talk with priest Milik, but I did not have the opportunity to see priest Bagatti while in Jerusalem. This would be of the greatest interest and the most important for further research. The Vatican and others have calculated through all existing evidence that Peter lived to be around 80 and 82 years and that he died around the years 62 to 64 A.D. However, he does raise a question which helps him to get out of the situation without altogether contradicting himself and at the same time putting a smoke screen around the truth. Francescani, in Jerusalem. He said that Peter never was in Rome…. In fact, I have a letter from a noted scientist stating that he can tell by the writing that it was written just before the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus in 70 A.D. I also spoke with Dr. Nelson Glueck, archaeologist and president of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio. Soon after, about the year 44 A.D. (Acts 12), Peter was cast into prison in Jerusalem by Herod, but he was released by an angel. While visiting the Catacombs, one sees a few things which are not becoming to Christians but which tend to indicate that the Christians had some pagan practices similar to those of Rome today. We lack historical proof. For a while all was well until another hitch developed. It is this very tropaion of Peter which excavators believe they have found buried under St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome during an archaeological dig that lasted from 1939 to 1949. Soon after that he met Peter in Antioch, and as Paul says he 'withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed,' Gal. The tomb dates between 130 and 300. "This ancient Christian burial ground shows that Peter died and was buried in Jerusalem, which is easily understandable since neither history nor the Bible tells of Peter's having been in Rome. In addition to Pfann’s alternative reading we now have the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae (edited by Hannah M. Cotton, et al.) To get the story, it made me feel as though I had a bull by the tail and were trying to pull him through a key hole. I agree that there should be a “high threshold” of evidence to suggest positive identifications between known individuals in our literary records and material remains such as ossuary inscriptions. The Roman Catholic Church declared him a saint, and refers to him as the first Bishop of Rome. These ossuaries would then be placed in a cave as in the case of this Christian burial ground and thus making room for others. But what makes the possibility of error more remote is that the remains were found in a Christian burial ground, and more yet, of the first century, the very time in which Peter lived. Peter is not mentioned again until the Jerusalem conference in 49 AD (Acts 15:7). The names of Mary and Martha were found on one box and right next to it was one with the name of Lazarus, their brother. (Excerpts from personal account by F. Paul Peterson). It was prophesied in the Bible that Jesus would stand on the Mount of Olives at His return to earth. But this cave or burial place where the ossuaries were found and which was created and brought about through the natural and disinterested sequence of events, without any reason to change facts or circumstances, was a greater testimony than if there were a witness recorded, stating that Peter was buried there. The remains of Peter and Paul, according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, were removed secretly by night and hidden in the Catacombs of Saint Sebastiano in 258 AD (There are a lot of references to Paul and Peter in the walls of this catacombs), and later they were returned to their original tombs after Valerian’s reign ended. The most prominent of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ. The fragment is now on display in the  Franciscan museum at the second station of the Cross on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem. The Biblical Truth About His Passion, Crucifixion and Resurrection. The Christian community in Rome would not have so venerated a grave, from such an early date, if they had not known for certain that it was the grave of their Apostle and Bishop — if they had not obtained the body following Peter’s crucifixion and buried it themselves. I knew that the evidence of Peter’s burial was there, for priests had told me that relics from the Christian burial ground were preserved within this museum. Some Clues From Science. The Holy Bible In Its Original Order is the only complete Bible ever published that follows the original inspired manuscript order of all the books of the Old and New Testaments. He told me that it would be very improbable that a name with three words, and one so complete, could refer to any other than St. Peter. He responded in a very profound and majestic tone of voice, “The Tomb of St. Peter has never been found in Jerusalem.” “Oh,” I said, “but I have seen the burial place of Peter with my own eyes.”…”What,” he replied, “you a foreigner mean to tell me that you know where the tomb of St. Peter is when I have been an official guide for thirty-five years and know every inch of ground in Jerusalem?” I was afraid that he would jump at my throat. You can also see this for yourself on the Mount of Olives on the Franciscan Convent site called, “Dominus Flevit”. Here are the final resting places of the relics of the Apostles. I visited various renowned archaeologists on the subject. The source of this rumor, written in Italian, was not clear; it left considerable room for doubt, or rather wonder. The pictures show the story. But he said that he would write a note. It contains 704 inscriptions, on ossuaries and other surfaces, that date to the area of Jerusalem in the 1st century BCE/CE. Was Peter buried in Rome? Then I looked him squarely in the eyes and firmly said, “No, the tomb of St. Peter is in Jerusalem.” He looked at me like a guilty school boy and held his peace. The first show an excavation where the names of Christian Biblical characters were found on the ossuaries (bone boxes). Great article, and only come upon it by chance looking for information that Peter was buried elsewhere such as Jerusalem. And yet, even that is unmistakably recorded in the three words in Aramaic of the ossuary, Simon Bar Jona…. For Catholics, St. Peter’s Church in the Vatican has a special significance. I quote this letter of Dr. Glueck because it shows that priest Milik is a competent archaeologist. If Peter were Pope it would have been no different. 16:7). They were found in an ossuary, on the outside of which was clearly and beautifully written in Aramaic, “Simon Bar Jona”. Of greatest interest, however, was that which was found within twelve feet from the place where the remains of Mary, Martha and Lazarus were found—the remains of St. Peter. St. Peter the Apostle, original name Simeon or Simon, (died 64 ce, Rome [Italy]), disciple of Jesus Christ, recognized in the early Christian church as the leader of the 12 disciples and by the Roman Catholic Church as the first of its unbroken succession of popes. (The Pope's statement that the remains of St. Peter were found under St. Peter's in Rome.) This time, as fate would have it, the bones in connection with the skull which was guarded for centuries as that of St. Peter, were found incompatible to the more recent bones of St. Peter. Eusebius the liar tell us that Peter was bishop of Antioch, and the Catalogus Liberianus of 354 CE tell us he served 25 as bishop of Rome, which was it? I had hoped to see you and to compliment you on such a great discovery, but time would not permit. His body was buried two miles away from the place of his martyrdom, in the sepulchral area along the Ostiense Way, owned by a devout Christian woman named Lucina, which was part of a pre-existent burial place . Some scholars find support for a tradition that the apostle was buried ad catacumbas (“at the catacombs ” of San Sebastiano) on the Via Appia in an inscription of St. Damasus I (pope, 366–384), composed in such ambiguous terms that it was certain to foster such misinterpretations as are found in the letter of St. Gregory the Great to the empress Constantina and in the notice of Pope St. Cornelius in the Liber … "… But they have said that after all these years of excavation under the Vatican, they have discovered Greek words which read, 'Peter is buried here,' and it gives the date 160 A.D.  First of all, the very structure of the sentence immediately gives one the impression that either quite recently or long ago, someone put the sign there hoping that it would be taken as authentic in order to establish that which then, and even now, has never been proven. The manner of his death is the only discrepancy. For the most part the ossuary was marginalized and forgotten and a rather standard response prevailed–namely that these names are common, so they could have belonged to any Mary, Martha, Lazarus, or Simon son of Jonah of the period and region. The following was published in Newsweek of July 1, 1957: 'It was in 1950 that Pope Pius XII in his Christmas message announced that the tomb of St. Peter had indeed been found, as tradition held, beneath the immense dome of the Cathedral (there was, however, no evidence that the bones uncovered there belonged to the body of the martyr).' The clear evidence is there.” I did not doubt the evidence, but what surprised me was that these priests and monks believed that which was against their own religion and on top of that, to admit it to others was something out of this world. Churches were built over the graves of famous people; and the Apostle Peter is buried in this church’s basement, with a supposedly legible and unambiguous inscription, and no one knows about it for nearly 2,000 years until a dude from Indiana gets upset about it? It fell upon them in this manner, as I was told by a Franciscan monk of the monastery of Dominus Flevit. But here we were talking to this Franciscan priest in charge of the museum, asking him questions which he tried to evade but could not because of the information I had already gathered from the many priests with whom I had spoken. It was then declared by Pope Paul as the Gospel truth that these now were the genuine bones of St. Peter, and most of the faithful accepted them as such. This ancient Christian burial ground shows that Peter died and was buried in Jerusalem, which is easily understandable since neither history nor the Bible tells of Peter’s having been in Rome. 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