Saints Peter and Paul: never without each other ....

(vatican Radio) Veronica Scarisbrick asks Scripture scholar and Archbishop of Brisbane in Australia, Mark Benedict Coleridge to share with us his expertise on the occasion of the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul.

In this reflection Archbishop Coleridge focuses on the figure of Saints Peter and Paul timed to coincide with the day the Church remembers them each year, the 29th of June.

Peter and Paul fought mightily in their lifetime but eventually their stories converged, their paths crossed in the most decisive way because both of them were among the Christian leaders in Rome in the mid 60's so were swept away in the tide of blood that came with the persecution of the Emperor Nero.

So both suffer a martyr's death, that much is certain: Paul is beheaded, Peter is crucified. And in the moment of their death they find their way so completely and so profoundly to Jesus crucified and risen that they find their way to one another. ..

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