Holy Relics
Pope Vitalian sent filings from Apostle Peter's chains to Oswy, King of Northumbria in the 7th century.
Peter's remains continue to be subject of investigation, but his tomb is located under Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. This was announced by Pope Pius XII on Christmas Day in 1950 after years of painstaking research.
Read more about this topic: Apostle Peter
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“We that are bound by vows and by promotion,
With pomp of holy sacrifice and rites,
To teach belief in good and still devotion,
To preach of heaven’s wonders and delights—
Yet, when each of us in his own heart looks,
He finds the God there far unlike his books.”
—Fulke Greville (1554–1628)
“Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade,
Where cold and unhonour’d his relics are laid.”
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