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[[One solitary lifeA Biography of Saint Peter]]... He was born in an obscure village, Peter the child of Apostle has been looked to throughout church history as a peasant womanmodel. The Roman Catholic church has claimed St. He grew up in another villagePeter as the first Bishop of Rome, where he worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirtythereby lending legitimacy to the modern day papacy. Then for three years he was an itinerant preacherPeter is widely considered to have been among the "inner circle" of Jesus' disciples (ex. He never wrote a bookMark 5. He never held an office12). He never traveled more than two hundred miles from is the place where he was born. He did none central figure in much of the things one usually associates with greatness. He was only thirty-three when first twelve chapters of the tide Acts of public opinion turned against himthe Apostles. He was turned over to Two epistles bear his enemies name and went through some scholars argue that he was the mockery of a trial. He was nailed source material that allowed Mark to a cross between two thieveswrite his Gospel. When he was dead, he was laid in a borrowed grave. Nineteen centuries have come Many apocryphal books deal with his preaching and gonedeeds, and today he is church tradition has a central figure well developed story of the human race and leader of mankind's progresshis martyrdom. All the armies that ever marchedBut, amidst all of this the navies that ever sailedquestion must be raised, all the kings that ever reigned have not affected the life of man as much as that One Solitary Life. And that man is Jesus Christ, the incarnation of God. who was Peter?

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