Ss. Pedro y Pablo
Peter and Paul are joined in a single feast because the Church of Rome was built upon the blood of both: the Rock on whom Christ founded his Church, and the Apostle who carried the Gospel to the nations. From the earliest centuries Rome honoured them together on June 29 as her twin founders, their basilicas — St Peter’s on the Vatican hill and St Paul’s Outside the Walls — marking the places of their burial. Together they signify the whole apostolic mission: Peter the shepherd of the flock, Paul the herald to the nations, one feast for the unity and universality of the Church they served unto death.
Los santos Pedro y Pablo, las dos columnas de la Iglesia apostólica, se celebran juntos el 29 de junio, día de su martirio en Roma bajo Nerón. Pedro, el pescador a quien Cristo llamó la Roca y primer Papa, y Pablo, el perseguidor convertido en Apóstol de los gentiles, trabajaron y murieron en la misma ciudad; la Iglesia honra su memoria como una sola fiesta.
