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Solomon Lee Van Meter Jr. was born as Joseph Atkins Van Meter in a cabin behind where his family's country residence, Shenandoah Hall, stands today (38.069369,-84.440274) on Bryan Station Pike in Fayette County, KY. His parents were Solomon Lee Van Meter and Evaline Trent "Evie" Swoope. He was the second of five siblings, and two half-siblings.
The liberation of the apostle Peter is an event described in chapter 12 of the Acts of the Apostles, in which the apostle Peter is rescued from prison by an angel. Although described in a short textual passage, the tale has given rise to theological discussions and has been the subject of a number of artworks.
The Liberation of Saint Peter is an oil painting on canvas of 1665–1667 by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, depicting the scene of the liberation of Peter from Acts 12:5–17. It is now in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.
The scene depicts the liberation of Peter, an episode from Acts 12:3–19 in which Peter was put into prison in Jerusalem by King Herod, but the night before his trial an angel awoke him while he lay between two guards and "a light shone in the cell". Both the angel and Peter have saintly haloes; the angel has golden hair.
The Liberation of Peter (1624), 104.5 × 86.5 cm, Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, The Hague The Annunciation (1624), 134 x 85 cm, Whitfield Fine Art, London, London The Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John , (c. 1625), 154.9 x 102.2 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City
"My chains fell off" - the Liberation of Peter (1514 fresco by Raphael, Vatican Museums). The title and first lines of the hymn are framed as a rhetorical question written in the first person, in which the narrator/singer asks if he can benefit from the sacrifice of Jesus (the blood of Christ), despite being the cause of Christ's death.
The Denial of Saint Peter [3] [4] is a painting by Hendrick ter Brugghen, a member of the Dutch Caravaggisti, depicting Saint Peter's thrice denial of Christ as recounted in all four Gospels. It is thought to have been painted after 1625, and thus in the last three years of Ter Brugghen's life; he died in 1629.
Van Meter was born to Cary B. Van Meter (1871–1918) and Julia Miller (1872–1924) in 1905 (according to other sources December 3, 1906) [citation needed] in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the son of an alcoholic railroad conductor.