According to early Church tradition, Peter was crucified in Rome under Emperor Nero, choosing to be crucified upside down out of humility, feeling unworthy to die in the same manner as Jesus. The ...

So disagreeable did the authorities find this message that, around the year 64, they rounded up Peter and brought him to the Circus of Nero, situated outside the city, to the west of the Tiber River.

While Christians may use the upside-down cross to express their humility and love for Christ in the same way Peter did when he asked to be crucified upside-down, the symbol can have more nefarious ...

Like St Peter – Christ’s chief apostle and first Pope who came from Judea to Rome, where he was eventually crucified, upside down – the current conclave could set up another transition from ...

Peter, was such a bold witness for Christ that the Roman Emperor Nero had the first bishop of Rome crucified. ... Peter requested to be crucified upside down.) The fifth pope, ...

Standing atop the colonnades of St. Peter's Basilica this morning, ... I was standing on the same hill where Peter himself—crucified upside down by Nero Caesar—died 2,000 years ago. ...

Peter the apostle, who came to Rome to spread the gospel, was martyred in this same square, crucified upside down by Emperor Nero.

The True Christian Meaning Behind the Inverted Cross. The history of the upside-down crosses is rooted in the story of St. Peter, considered the first pope. According to tradition, Peter was crucified ...

A fisherman turned leading apostle of Jesus, Peter served from around 30 to 64 AD. A man whose death was eerily similar to that of Christ, only that he was crucified upside down under Emperor Nero, ...

That seems to track with stories suggesting that after Peter was crucified upside down, he was removed from his cross very quickly and gruesomely—just chopped off at the ankles instead of ...