On the twenty-ninth day of June (which was last day of that month that happened within the reign of Nero) Paul was…
On the twenty-ninth day of June (which was last day of that month that happened within the reign of Nero) Paul was beheaded at Rome as the records both of the eastern and western church confirm. Thereupon Chrysostom undoubtedly affirmed that the day of his death was more certainly known than that of Alexander the Great himself. {Chrysostom, 2 Corinthian Homily,26.} Dionysius, the bishop of the Corinthians, affirmed in a letter to the Romans that Peter also suffered martyrdom at the same time with him. {*Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, 1. 2. c. 25.<1:79,80>} Origin also stated {Origin, Commentaries upon Genesis, tome. 3.} that at Rome, Peter was crucified with his head downwards (as he had desired.) {*Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, 1. 3. c. 1. <1:82>} The prediction of Christ was then fulfilled which he made to him: ((JHN 21:18,19) "When thou art old, thou shalt stretch forth thine hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not."