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The Calling of the Apostles Peter and Andrew (from the Maestà), c. 1308–1311 Apostle Peter striking the High Priests' servant Malchus with a sword in the Garden of Gethsemane, by Giuseppe Cesari, c. 1597 Apostle Peter Released from Prison, Jacopo di Cione, 1370–1371 (Philadelphia Museum of Art) Peter was a Jewish fisherman in Bethsaida. [1]
The sacrifice of married life is for the "sake of the Kingdom" (Luke 18:28–30, [11] Matthew 19:27–30), [12] and to follow the example of Jesus Christ in being "married" to the church, viewed by Catholicism and many Christian traditions as the "Bride of Christ" (following Ephesians 5:25–33 [13] and Revelation 21:9, [14] together with the ...
Tertullian (c. 160 – c. 225), writing of the apostles, indicated that he was obliged to believe that apart from Peter, who was certainly married, the apostles were continent. [45] In his De praescriptione contra haereticos , Tertullian mentioned continence as one of the customs in Mithraism that he claimed were imitated from Christianity, but ...
The Jerusalem Church was an early Christian community located in Jerusalem, of which James and Peter were leaders. According to a universal tradition the first bishop was the Apostle James the Less, the "brother of the Lord". His predominant place and residence in the city are implied by Galatians 1:19.
Portrayed by George H. Xanthis, John the Apostle is a former fisherman in Capernaum and one of the twelve disciples, called apostles, of Jesus. He is one of the sons of Zebedee and Salome, the younger brother of Big James, and a former fishing partner of Simon Peter and Andrew. Jesus nicknames him and his brother, Big James, the "sons of ...
Died: 1st century; possibly 3rd century: Venerated in: Roman Catholic Church: Feast: 31 May: Attributes: Depicted being healed by Peter the Apostle; early Christian maiden with a broom; lying dead but incorrupt in her coffin with flowers in her hair as the coffin is opened during renovations; receiving the newly dead into heaven; set of keys; spurning a marriage proposal, represented by a ring ...
Highly educated, Peter became head of the school of Alexandria. [3] In early 300, while on his death bed, Theonas advised the church leaders to choose Peter as his successor, which they did. Peter's time as bishop included the Diocletianic Persecution, which began in 303, and continued intermittently over the next ten years. Forced into exile ...
The Acts of Peter is one of the earliest of the apocryphal Acts of the Apostles in Christianity, dating to the late 2nd century AD. The majority of the text has survived only in the Latin translation of the Codex Vercellensis , under the title Actus Petri cum Simone ("Act of Peter with Simon").