![]() Now, funded anonymously by a wealthy American, a small army of workers embarked on the dig of a lifetime. ![]() ![]() This surprising discovery launched a secret quest that would last decades - a quest to discover the long-lost burial place of the Apostle Peter.įrom earliest times, Christian tradition held that Peter - a lowly fisherman from Galilee, whom Christ made leader of his Church - was executed in Rome by Emperor Nero and buried on Vatican Hill. In 1939, a team of workers beneath the Vatican unearthed an early Christian grave.
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