Peter was declared a martyr and beatified in 1889. Pope Pius XII canonized him in 1954. Within a few years of Saint Peter Chanel’s death, most of the island of Futuna had converted to Catholicism.

St. Jerome, a biblical scholar of the fourth ... 1,800th anniversary of the martyrdom of Peter and Paul. Before that, the chair had not been seen since 1666 when it was first encased inside ...

The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul is celebrated on 29 June ... Paul travelled widely spreading the Good News and was martyred by being beheaded outside the walls of Rome. The Assumption refers ...