Our Christian roots: The rooster and St. Peter's Denial
(Vatican Radio) Imagine if we were haunted by an image that would always be there
to remind us of our human failings or worse, of our greatest failure? It is unlikely
that after Christ’s crucifixion, St. Peter was ever able to look at a rooster again
without his heart breaking. Remember, before he was arrested, Christ told Peter that
he would have denied knowing him three times by the time he heard the cock crow. Christian
art historian Elizabeth Lev tells Tracey McClure that the rooster is a protagonist
of depictions in paintings and frescoes here in Rome of Peter’s denial of Christ.
And, there's even one in St. Peter's very own basilica...Listen to the program:
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