Saints Peter and Paul Apostles

To continue with the information about the saint days I switched information sources and this came from the Daily Ropman Missal from Our Sunday Vistitor Publishing Division, huntington, IN 1998

Saints Peter and Paul Apostles

SS. Peter and Paul are the principal pillars fo the Catholic church founded by Christ. Peter was chosen by Christ to be His first Vicar on earth, endowed with powers of the keys of the kingdom of Heave (Mt. 16:13-19( and charged with the role of Shepard of Christ's flock (Jn 21:15-17). In peter and his successors, we can see a visible sign of unity and communion in faith and charity. Divine grace led Peter to profess Christ's divinity. St. Peter suffered martyrdom under Nero, in 66 or 67 A.D. he was buried at the hill of the Vatican, where recent excavations have revealed his tomb on the very site of St. Peter's Basilica.

Paul was chosen to form part of the apotolic college by Christ himself on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1-16). An instrument selected to bring Christ's name to all peoples of the Gentiles. St. Paul was beheaded in the Tre Fontane along the Via Ostiens and buried nearby, on the site where the basilica bearing his name now stands.