2006-10-05 05:45:52 · 19 answers · asked by I-C-U 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Later traditions, originating in or recorded in the apocryphal Acts of Peter, say that the Romans crucified Peter upside down at his request, due to his wishing not to be equated with Jesus. Acts of Peter is also thought to be the source for the tradition about the famous phrase "Quo Vadis" (Where are you going?), a question that, according to this tradition, Peter, fleeing Rome to avoid execution, asked a vision of Jesus, and to which Jesus responded that he was "going to Rome, to be crucified again", causing Peter to decide to return to the city and accept martyrdom. This story is commemorated in an Annibale Carracci painting. The Church of Quo Vadis, near the Catacombs of Saint Callistus, contains a stone in which Jesus' footprints from this event are supposedly preserved, though this was actually apparently an ex-voto from a pilgrim, and indeed a copy of the original, housed in the Basilica of St Sebastian.
The ancient historian Josephus describes how Roman soldiers would amuse themselves by crucifying criminals in different positions, and it is likely that this would have been known to the author of the Acts of Peter. The position attributed to Peter's crucifixion is thus plausible, either as having happened historically or as being an invention by the author of the Acts of Peter. Death, after crucifixion head down, is unlikely to be caused by suffocation, the usual cause of death in ordinary crucifixion.
A medieval misconception was that the Mamertine Prison in Rome is the place where Peter was imprisoned before his execution.
2006-10-05 05:49:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Peter felt he was unworthy of being crucified in the same manner as JESUS so he asked to be crucified in the upside down position. in a way this made Peter's Crucifixion memorable for the Christians.
2006-10-05 05:49:59 · answer #2 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
As legend would have it, he considered himself unworthy to be crucified in the same manner as the Lord.
2006-10-05 06:04:43 · answer #3 · answered by Hope 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He did not see it fitting to be crucified the same way as his Lord.
2006-10-05 05:47:23 · answer #4 · answered by BABY 3 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Because he felt he was not worthy to be crucified upright, as Jesus Christ was.
Peace.
2006-10-05 05:47:25 · answer #5 · answered by Suzanne: YPA 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
He believed he was not worthy to be crucified upright , they way Jesus was crucified
2006-10-05 05:47:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
and it is one of the worse ways to die. Blood flows to the brain keeping it alive the entire time. Even limbs can be cut off and you would feel it all still....
2006-10-05 05:48:44 · answer #7 · answered by hmmm... 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-12-04 07:30:25 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to tradition it was His request... Jim
2006-10-05 05:58:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because he denied knowing christ not once but 3 times
2006-10-05 07:33:13 · answer #10 · answered by beckyklos2003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋