Signs and Mysteries: Revealing Ancient Christian Symbols by Mike Aquilina

Author:Mike Aquilina [Mike Aquilina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-03-31T01:11:00+00:00

St. Peter as Moses striking the rock. Glass. The Vatican Museum.

Peter's water miracle. Detailfrom a sarcophagus. Museo delle Terme, Rome. Around A.D. 325.

We possess no written account of this incident earlier than late in the fourth century. It may be an oral tradition passed, like many others, from generation to generation of Roman Christians. It may also be an imaginative reading of the symbolic paintings of Moses as Peter.

Neither do we know for certain that Peter was imprisoned in the Tullianum. Some historians believe he was kept in house-arrest at a place not far from the Forum. We do know that the Church of Rome - in the fourth century and perhaps earlier - honored Peter's twojailers, Processus and Martinianus, as martyrs.

Peter-as-Moses images have been found most abundantly in and around Rome - on sarcophagi, on gilded glass, and in murals - but not only in Rome. One was unearthed, for example, on a plate found in modern Montenegro. This last one bears the legend (in Latin): "Peter struck with his rod, and the founts began to run."

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