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Bishop of Rome, 30 – 64
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Simon son of Jonah, of Bethsaida. The apostle to whom Christ said: you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church. Crucified in Rome, tradition says upside down. The first Bishop of Rome. Every later pope is measured against this man.
Wonders this archive keeps that belong to the years he sat, or that he himself stood before.
Jerusalemc. AD 33
On the third day Jesus rose from the dead. This is not one Catholic miracle among others. It is the reason there is a Church, a Gospel, or any later sign worth hearing.
Jerusalemc. AD 33
Fifty days after Easter, the Spirit falls on the gathered disciples with wind and fire. They preach, and a divided world hears the one Gospel in many tongues.
Road to Damascusc. AD 34
A persecutor of the Church is thrown down by a light and a voice: “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” The risen Jesus makes an apostle out of an enemy.
