{"id":161,"date":"2014-02-22T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2014\/02\/rome-and-her-apostle.html"},"modified":"2016-03-25T17:45:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T22:45:11","slug":"rome-and-her-apostle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2014\/02\/rome-and-her-apostle.html","title":{"rendered":"Rome and her Apostle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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From antiquity Roman Christians have celebrated the day Saint Peter first arrived to Rome and presided over the Christian community. \u00a0Early records show that Romans remembered this event on January 18th. \u00a0Records also show that by the early fourth century another celebration linked to Peter called the Chair of Peter was celebrated in the city on February 22nd. \u00a0Both days became great celebrations of Rome\u2019s first bishop, January 18th celebrated at a cemetery on the Via Salaria outside the city and February 22nd at the tomb of Peter on the Vatican Hill.<\/div>\n
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Both locations venerated a chair used by Saint Peter himself during his time in Rome. \u00a0Bishops in the early Church presided over the community sitting on a chair from where they preached and taught on the Lord\u2019s Day. \u00a0The chair of the bishop, or cathedra in Latin, became a symbol of the teaching authority of the bishop since as bishop, he was a successor of the apostles commissioned and sent by Jesus himself to preach to all nations.<\/div>\n
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The Christians of Rome treasured Saint Peter\u2019s cathedrae since they represented Peter\u2019s authority as an apostle and as the one to whom Jesus said, \u201cYou are Peter and upon this rock I will build my church.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The cathedra kept at the Via Salaria seems to have perished due to invasions and attacks of Rome in the sixth and seventh centuries. \u00a0The other cathedra continues to be stored in a beautiful reliquary at Saint Peter Basilica at the Altar of the Chair in the apse of the Vatican basilica.<\/div>\n
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The altar was designed and built by the famous Lorenzo Bernini in 1666. \u00a0A huge black chair seems to be suspended in the middle of clouds while the Holy Spirit descends on top depicted on alabaster window. \u00a0Below the chair you find larger than life sized sculptures of the original four doctors of the Church: Saint Ambrose, Saint Athanasius, Saint John Chrysostom and Saint Augustine. \u00a0The large chair encases the small wooden cathedra of Saint Peter.<\/div>\n
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In every cathedral throughout the world you will find the cathedra or chair of the bishop. \u00a0Only the bishop may sit on it since it represents his authority. \u00a0At Saint Peter\u2019s Basilica in the Vatican you find the cathedra of Peter signifying the living voice of Peter present in his successors. \u00a0To see the cathedra of the Bishop of Rome, the Pope\u2019s cathedra, you must visit the Basilica of Saint John Lateran, the cathedral of Rome. \u00a0Saint John Lateran was built by Emperor Constantine in the 4th century to be the bishop\u2019s principal church and the bishops of Rome lived there until the 14th century.<\/div>\n
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The Church continues to celebrate the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter on February 22nd, giving thanks to God for the gift of Saint Peter and his successors who continue to guide and shepherd the Church. \u00a0Just as the early Christians treasured Saint Peter\u2019s presence, today we treasure Pope Francis who connects us to the apostolic roots of our faith.<\/div>\n
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Bernini\u2019s High Altar with the Altar of the Chair behind. \u00a0Candles are lit on the feast day, one candle per Pope.<\/div>\n
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With my mom at Saint Peter\u2019s on the Feast of the Chair of Peter, 2006<\/div>\n
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