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DESCRIPTION:Peter and Paul\, the two greatest leaders of the early Church\,
  are commemorated separately\, Peter on January 18\, for his confession of
  Jesus as the Messiah\, and Paul on January 25\, for his conversion\, but 
 they are commemorated together on June 29 in observance of the tradition o
 f the Church that they both died as martyrs in Rome during the persecution
  under Nero\, in 64.\nPaul\, the well-educated and cosmopolitan Jew of the
  Dispersion\, and Peter\, the uneducated fisherman from Galilee\, had diff
 erences of opinion in the early years of the Church concerning the mission
  to the Gentiles. More than once\, Paul speaks of rebuking Peter for his c
 ontinued insistence on Jewish exclusiveness\; yet their common commitment 
 to Christ and the proclamation of the Gospel proved stronger than their di
 fferences\; and both eventually carried that mission to Rome\, where they 
 were martyred. According to tradition\, Paul was granted the right of a Ro
 man citizen to be beheaded by a sword\, but Peter suffered the fate of his
  Lord\, crucifixion\, though with head downward.\nA generation after their
  martyrdom\, Clement of Rome\, writing to the Church in Corinth\, probably
  in 96 A.D.\, says: “Let us come to those who have most recently proved 
 champions\; let us take up the noble examples of our own generation. Becau
 se of jealousy and envy the greatest and most upright pillars of the Churc
 h were persecuted and competed unto death. Let us bring before our eyes th
 e good apostles—Peter\, who because of unrighteous jealousy endured not 
 one or two\, but numerous trials\, and so bore a martyr’s witness and we
 nt to the glorious place that he deserved. Because of jealousy and strife 
 Paul pointed the way to the reward of endurance\; seven times he was impri
 soned\, he was exiled\, he was stoned\, he was a preacher in both east and
  west\, and won renown for his faith\, teaching uprightness to the whole w
 orld\, and reaching the farthest limit of the west\, and bearing a martyr
 ’s witness before the rulers\, he passed out of the world and was taken 
 up into the holy place\, having proved a very great example of endurance.
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