This is Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s depiction of the crucifixion of Saint Peter, who insisted on being crucified upside down he felt unworthy to die in the same manner as ...

THE CRUCIFIXION; The Story of ... Peter turned his head in the direction of Jesus and answered fatiguedly: "I do not know." And he yawned again loudly, then threw himself on his back and became ...

That passage, spoken by the Apostle Peter 50 days after the crucifixion, quotes another fire-and-brimstone forecast from the Old Testament, as Joel 2:28-31 warns: ...

Daprile said the earliest known depiction of the crucifixion is actually an insult, or "graffito blasfemo," from around the year 200 A.D.. It depicts a naked and crucified person with the head of ...