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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture This is a widely-shared anti-Roman claim found today especially among radical Protestants. It originates in the Reformation-era anti-Roman polemics. The excavations under St. Peter's Basilica on Vatican Hill during the 1940s have provided very strong archaeological evidence of a cult marking his burial place (In an ancient Christian cemetery), with an aedicule that seems to have been there already ca. 165, suggesting the cult honoring this spot goes back long before that particular piece of masonry was built. I don't have at hand the bibligraphic citations for the reports of the archeological work--there was some controversy at the time about the quality of the reporting, but I believe there's now a strong consensus among scholars of all persuasions about the physical evidence that Peter was honored very early on as having been martyred at Rome. I do not have my bibliography at hand but could post later two or three basic works dealing in historical theological terms with the prinicple that Roman ecclesiastical primacy rests in fact on the early martyrdoms of both Peter and Paul, as much as on the conventional claim that it only emerged in 4th and 5th century argumentation from Roman legal theory. (Roch Kereszty and William S. Farmer have one book on this topic.) Dennis Martin >>> [log in to unmask] 05/30/04 7:11 PM >>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture "Legends (all much later) tell that she helped care for St. Peter during his time in Rome..." I found on line a newspaper or journal article disputing the fact that Saint Peter ever was in Rome. If I can find it again, I'll send the URL. Has any list member ever come across this idea? Or is this widely accepted and I'm just out of the loop? With apologies for straying from the strictly medieval, MG ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - NetZero HiSpeed! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month -visit www.netzero.com to sign up today! ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html