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Tomb of St. Peter a shocking invention
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Around 442, Pope Leo the Great (440-461) devised an extraordinary money-making
scheme that was destined to have profound repercussions upon the development of
Christianity for centuries to come. The record of this enterprising connivance is found in
both the extant writings of Pope Leo and Salvianus (d. 456), a distinguished historian of
Marseilles who wrote an open letter to the Church of Rome that now forms part of a book
called, On Gods Government. Salvianuss writings are numerous, and his frank
reference to the turpitude of morals of the priesthood against their followers continues to
embarrass the Vatican to this day.
How to make a clergyman squirm
Salvianus made the now-famous comment that two priests could not meet in Rome
without bursting into laugher, a reference to the gullibility of the people who believed what
the developing priesthood was expounding about the Gospel story of Jesus Christ.
Salvianus revealed that Pope Leo the Great conceived a shocking invention when he
ordered the construction of a stone enclosure in a cemetery that, more than 1000 years
later (1506), became the site for the commencement of the building of the largest and
most splendid structure in Christendom, St. Peters Basilica. The comments of Salvianus
are supported in one of Popes Leos 173 own letters that still exist today, and this is what
he said:
To this primitive worthy [St. Peter] we owe a debt of gratitude let us feign that his holy
carcass was transported from a monastery near Cologne lest the devil come to seize his
soul it would please the Almighty if his body was seen to rest in this city, the body that
suffered such exquisite torments. Who then, after these centuries, is able to attest any
different to the fact of an old skeleton, for it is a matter of faith that it is really that of St.
Peter laid to rest in the Holy City, and that faith will nourish the confidence of the rabble.
(On Gods Government, Vol., iii, 9, Vol., 53 of the Migne Collection; expanded upon in
Campbells Lecture on Ecclesiastical History, and Isaac Taylors Ancient Christianity)
Workmen covered the crude structure with timber planks and town-criers in bright attire
were dispatched to spread the news among the populous that the burial place of the
Turn-key of Heaven, St. Peter, had been found in the Eternal City. In reality, the bones
were those of a common thief and they became honoured as St. Peter himself. Pope Leo
celebrated the discovery by naming the tomb, Memoria and he renamed Rome, the
Pardon of Peter by which it was known for centuries (ibid, p. 225).
Blatant priesthood embezzlement
With Pope Leos ploy of creating a tomb for St. Peter in Rome, a cult developed that
demanded that believers of the Christian story journey to Rome and offer prayers to Peter
at his fabricated resting place. Beginning with the English and the Scots, pilgrims from
deeply nave countries were cajoled to travel to Rome, and the tomb discovery scheme
provided the Church with a tremendous source of revenue. The subjects of the popes
were the most degraded and debased people in Europe, ignorant, superstitious and
semi-civilized, squalid beggars pilfering their beseeched offerings , and in this aspect, for
centuries the papacy had an open field.
The creation of a second tomb
Thus, the tradition of pilgrimages to Rome was established
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, and in addition to
encouraging the belief that Pope St. Peters tomb was there, bishops cultivated the myth
with undiminished eagerness. This they did, not as upholders of a devout legend, but as
skillful promoters of a growing cult that had concrete and far-reaching objectives. Its
magnification brought it immense authority, and, with it, wealth. The populous submitted for
centuries to the tyrannical usurpations of the haughty and abandoned prelates of Rome
and so successful was the fraud of St. Peters tomb that the Holy Mother Church then
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created an adjoining tomb for the great apostle, St. Paul (The Bertinian Annals, c. 1020).
Bring money, bring money
That is how pilgrimages to Rome were initiated, later supported mainly and curiously by
Anglo-Saxons. Popes of the time actively promoted pilgrimages to the tomb, and from the
very beginning, they showed a special predilection for the richest and most powerful
personages of the times; that is, individuals who could give them valuable presents, land
and power. To quote a typical example, Pope Leo the Great wrote in one of his 173 extant
letters how, after Peter had spoken to him from the tomb, Emperor Valentinian III (c.
419-455) and his family regularly performed devotions at the tomb, such practices yielding
a useful respect for the apostles successors to whom they offered costly presents and
the tenure of land (Leos Tome; a doctrinal letter).
Speaking to St. Peter
The Church hierarchy, far from discouraging the dishonest practice, gave its approval.
Witness, for example, the later words of St. Gregory of Tours (538-594), who, in his De
Gloria Martyrum, provided a detailed description of the ceremony he devised in order for
the faithful to speak with the Prince of Apostles. The pilgrim was told to kneel down upon
the tomb and open a wooden trap door. Then, he inserted his head down into the hole,
after which, still remaining in that posture, revealed in a loud voice the object of his visit to
the saint. Offerings of money were then thrown into the tomb, followed by veneration and
obeisance that were offered to St. Peters successor, the pope of the day. The religious
and even political results of this practice upon ignorant nations like the Anglo-Saxons and
the Franks who imitated them, can easily be imagined.
The bones of St. Peter dumped in the Tiber
Then, in the Ninth Century and during the pontificate of Pope Sergius II (d. 847), the
Saracens sacked Rome. They stormed and pillaged the ports of Ostia and Portus, sailed
up the Tiber, and then invaded Rome. Soldiers smashed open the tomb and threw the
bones of St. Peter
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into the Tiber. Later, another and larger tomb was built, and for the
first time, enclosed by walls and roofed over. Human remains were dug up from nearby
graves, and presented to the rabble as those of both Pope St. Peter and St. Paul.
Sometime later, a timber wall was built beside the tomb on which was drawn a graffiti-like
sketch of St. Peter in charcoal and ochre outlines. The ignorant bowed themselves down
and revered the apostle as God on earth (Annalibus Loiseliannus) at whose fanciful
representation one can only wonder.
On Gods Government, Vol., iii, 9, Vol., 53 of the Migne Collection
Secrets of the Christian Fathers, Bishop J. W. Sergerus, 1685, reprint 1897, p. 169
Chronica, Victor of Tunnunum (c. 589), cited by Dr. Mills, Prolegom to R.V., p. 93
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Pilgrimage to Rome, Rev. Seymour, 1832
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The Annals of Beneventum, written by monks of Italy; c. 1200-1400, held in the
Monumenta Germaniae (v)
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Darran McDonnell (signed in using Hotmail)
I have Pope Leo's letters here, would you mind advising me as to what book and passage that
you quoted out of? It seems like everywhere on the net minus this blog has never heard of it.
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David Fitzgerald Works at Semi-Retired
Darren you are a typical Christian idiot.
Reply Like Follow Post March 3 at 2:34pm
Shamita Shah St. Joseph's High School [Orlem]
christians are mad
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Harry Formanek Top Commenter
The pope smokes dope
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