Tradition holds that the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Basilica has the jealous custody of a relic that is part of the Holy Lance. The Gospel of John provides the sole biblical reference to this ...

His name is Bartholomew, and he is the patriarch of ... and an architectural wonder built 1,000 years before Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, and for centuries the most important church in the ...

The crucifixion is, of course, brutal but even before that, we see Peter cutting off the ear ... It could just be that, out of a host of holy relics, the lance feels the most like something ...