Our Christian roots: Gallicantu where the rooster crowed

(Vatican Radio) Fr. Peter Stravinskus, scholar and author and editor of the Catholic Response, reflects on St. Peter’s denial of Christ in this program by Tracey McClure:
Peter’s betrayal of Christ is an important part of the Lord’s Passion and was remembered by the earliest Christians in Jerusalem. Today, the Church of St. Peter of Gallicantu – Latin for “the place where the cock crowed” stands on the slopes of Jerusalem’s mount Zion – on the site where Jesus was believed to have been imprisoned by the high priest Caiaphas. Though the actual church dates from 1931, it was built over the ruins of a fifth century shrine and rises above a series of crypts and chambers carved out of rock in the first few decades after Christ’s crucifixion...
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