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At 18:10 29/05/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Today, 31 May, is the feast of ... 
>
>* Petronilla, virgin and martyr (251?) - according to the Roman
>Martyrology: 'At Rome, [the commemoration of] St Petronilla, Virgin,
>daughter of the blessed Apostle Peter ...'; 'daughter of the apostle
>Peter'?????!!!!!

Of course, he had a son, Mark (cf. 1 Peter 5:13).  There's nothing
improbable about his having had a daughter.  But she would have been a
little long in the tooth by AD 251.

Oriens.



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