A Wikipedia article on Saint Peter, recording early Christian tradition that he was crucified in Rome around the year 64 during the reign of Nero, and that, considering himself unworthy to die in the same manner as Jesus, he asked to be crucified head downward. The article traces this to the apocryphal Acts of Peter and to Origen's account as preserved by Eusebius, and notes that the inverted cross, the Cross of Saint Peter, symbolizes the tradition directly. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here to confirm the inverted crucifixion tradition, independently corroborated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue naming and describing an actual panel painted under that tradition. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Nero directly: "around the year 64 during the reign of Nero, and that, considering himself unworthy to die in the same manner as Jesus, he asked to be crucified head downward."
Source Saint Peter (Wikipedia)
Claims Backed By This Source (7 claims)
This source backs 7 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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