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[log in to unmask] wrote: > > In a message dated 06/28/2000 6:17:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [log in to unmask] writes: > > << * Peter (c. 64), apostle - Butler writes: "The passion of St Peter took > place in Rome during the reign of Nero (54-68), but no written account > of it, if there is such a thing, has survived. According to an old but > unverifiable tradition he was confined in the Mamertine prison, where > the church of San Pietro in Carcere now stands." > > * Paul (c. 67), apostle - There is a tradition that he was beheaded on > the Ostian Way, at a place called Aquae Salviae, near where the basilica of > St Paul Outside the Walls stands today. > >> > > I asked this last year but never got a response: how far back can we trace > the above legends of Peter and Paul? If I remember correctly, the earliest > mention of their passing, and it is very vague, is that of Clement's letter > to the Corinthians. > > mark This may not be a response, either (knowledge is, alas, limited), only a suggestion. If I were to pursue the matter, I would first re-read the essay by Victor Saxer "Le culte des apotres Pierre et Paul dans les plus vieux formulaires romains de la messe du 29 juin" in "Saecularia damasiana" 199-240, published by PIAC, Rome 1969; then study carefully one of the main sources for Saxer's work, the Sacramentarium veronense published by L. C. Mohlberg in the series "Rerum ecclesiarum documenta - Fontes" (Publisher: Herder, Rome 1958). Saxer gives as the first precise information on the martyrdom of Peter and Paul is the depositio martyrum (day of the feast: 29.6) dated to 258 A.D. (consular year). A study of the textual transmission of Sacramentarium (codex Bib. Cap. Veronense 85) might yield some data - at least, that's the avenue I would pursue. Luciana -- **************************************** Luciana Cuppo Csaki Societas internationalis pro Vivario e-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.geocities.com/athens/aegean/9891/ **************************************** %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%