St. Peter's Basilica

The calendar shows that today is the Feast of the Basilicas of St. Peter and Paul. Interestingly, there is a Basilica of St. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia, but the feast is talking about the basilicas in Rome.

St. Peter's (see photo) is supposedly where St. Peter is buried, although there is nothing in the New Testament to suggest St. Peter was ever in Rome. I learned something new...a cathedra is Latin for "chair" and it is believed that a part of the cathedra from which St. Peter led the Church is built into the altar. The place where the cathedra (the symbol of teaching authority in the Catholic Church) resides is called a cathedral. This is no longer the Papal cathedra. Of course, now I have to try to find a photo of the Pope's cathedra.