two most glorious Apostles, Peter and Paul, that Church which has the
tradition and the faith which comes down to us after having been
announced to men by the Apostles. For with this Church, because of its
superior origin, all Churches must agree, that is, all the faithful in the whole
world; and it is in her that the faithful everywhere have maintained the
Apostolic tradition.”
Clement of Alexandria
(ante 217
AD)
[in
Eusebius, Ecclesiastical
History 6, 14 (c. 303 AD)]
“When Peter preached the Word publicly at Rome, and declared the Gospel
by the Spirit, many who were present requested that Mark, who had been
for a long time his follower and who remembered his sayings, should write
down what had been proclaimed.”
Tertullian, The Demurrer Against the Heretics 36, 1(c. 200 AD)
“How happy is that Church ... where Peter endured a passion like that of
the Lord, where Paul was crowned in a death like John’s.”
Eusebius Pamphilus, Ecclesiastical History 2, 15, 4 (303 AD)
“It is said that Peter’s first epistle, in which he makes mention of Mark, was
composed at Rome itself; and that he himself indicates this, referring to the
city figuratively as Babylon.”
Eusebius Pamphilus, The Chronicle Ad An. Dom 42 (c. 303 AD)
“The second year of the two hundredth and fifth Olympiad (42 AD) the
apostle Peter, after he has established the Church in Antioch, is sent to
Rome, where he remains a bishop of that city, preaching the gospel for
twenty five years…”
Eusebius Pamphilus, The Chronicle Ad An. Dom. 68 (c. 303 AD)
“Nero is the first, in addition to all other crimes, to make a persecution
against the Christians, in which Peter and Paul died gloriously in Rome.”
St. Peter of Alexandria, Canonical Letter, canon 9 (311 AD)
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