According to church history, the apostles Peter and Paul arrived ... A different tradition records that Peter was killed by crucifixion, placed upside down by his own choice, as a symbol that ...

According to tradition, St. Paul was beheaded the same day St. Peter was crucified. Constantine didn’t forget St. Paul — he built a basilica over the apostle’s grave on the Via Ostia.

PHILLIPS: Peter the Apostle was crucified on Vatican Hill. Feeling unworthy to be crucified like his Savior, Jesus Christ, he requested to be crucified upside down. Peter's remains were buried on ...

He was the chief apostle, but his flesh was weak ... depiction of Peter’s martyrdom in 1601 painting, “The Crucifixion of St. Peter.” In it, an aging Peter has been nailed to a wooden ...

The archaeologists have dubbed the site the "Church of the Apostles ... by the Basilica of St. Peter on Vatican Hill in Rome, over the place where he was crucified. According to the excavators ...