The Trophy and Peter’s tomb beneath it were further buried in the 16th century, ... Jesus confirmed that Peter had been in Rome and had suffered martyrdom under Nero.

Peter would proclaim boldly, “This Jesus God raised, and of that we are all witnesses.” The empty tomb is not a monument to death — it is a gateway to eternal life, a declaration that ...

Of the four gospel accounts of what happened at Jesus’ tomb on Easter morning, Matthew’s is the most embellished, for it alone places guards at the tomb, names the tomb’s owner, reports a ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis took an emotional, close-up look at the tomb of Peter, the church’s first pontiff, buried beneath St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said.