Saint Peter and Saint Paul

Today was one of those rare feast days not transferred to a Sunday but celebrated on the day.

It was a Holiday of Obligation. Holiday...from Holy Day, and obligation in the sense that cathoics must attend Mass on this day.

Of course these 2 saints are central to the Church. Peter, with his traditional Jewish way of thinking, and St Paul who realised that the Message - the Gospel - had to be spread beyond Rome, or else the new Church would seperate into tiny factions around Rome.

Both saints were Martyred. Peter was cricified upside down, and Paul, a Roman Citizen, was killed by the sword.

The remains of Peter are believed to have been found in the earth beneath the Vatican, and ancient graves have been discovered around Saint Pauls Outside The Walls.

Photos are from interior of Tewkesbury Abbey