St. Peter ad Vincula
Saint Peter ad Vincula (Saint Peter in chains) may refer to one of the following:
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[edit] Biblical story
- Liberation of Saint Peter - Acts 12:1-19 tells how the Apostle Peter was imprisoned by King Herod, but the night before his trial an angel appeared to him and led him out of prison.
[edit] Festival
Celebrated on August 1, it is a liturgical feast (commemorating the Liberation of Saint Peter) in the pre-1962 General Calendar of the Roman Rite (see the Tridentine Calendar, the General Roman Calendar as in 1954 and the General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII). Traditional Roman Catholics continue to celebrate the feast day of "St Peter's Chains" either as a Greater-Double or a Double Major feast.
In the Orthodox Church, the feast of the "Veneration of the Precious Chains of the Holy and All-Glorious Apostle Peter" is celebrated on January 16.
[edit] Relics
The relic of the Chains of St. Peter were kept in Jerusalem, where they were venerated by Christian pilgrims. In the fourth century, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, St. Juvenal, presented them to Eudocia, wife of Emperor Theodosius the Younger, and she took them to Constantinople.
Later, Eudocia sent a portion of the chains to Rome with her daughter Licinia Eudoxia, the wife of Valentinian III. Licinia Eudoxia built the church of S. Petrus ad Vincula on the Esquiline Hill to house the relic. Also in Rome was the relic of the chains with which Peter was bound when he was imprisoned by Nero. These latter chains were placed in the same church as the chains from Jerusalem.
[edit] Church buildings
[edit] Germany
- St. Petri-in-Ketten, Bonn (Lengsdorf), North Rhine-Westphalia
- St. Peter in Ketten, Hadamar, Hesse
- St. Petrus in Ketten, Imsweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate
- St. Peter in Ketten, Montabaur, Rhineland-Palatinate
[edit] Italy
- Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome - the origin of the dedication
- San Pietro in Vinculis, Borgo San Lorenzo, Tuscany
- San Pietro in Vinculis, Comune di Caccamo, Sicily
- San Pietro in Vinculis, Castellino del Biferno, Molise
- San Pietro in Vincoli, Madignano, Lombardy
- San Pietro in Vinculis, Naples
- San Pietro in Vinculis, Pisa
- San Pietro in Vincoli, Ravenna
- San Pietro in Vincoli, Salerno
[edit] Malta
- San Pietru fil-Ktajjen, Birżebbuġa
[edit] Netherlands
- Sint Petrus' Banden, Diemen, North Holland
- Sint Petrus' Banden, Driebergen, Utrecht (province)
- Sint Petrus' Banden, Heer (Netherlands), Maastricht
- Sint Petrus' Banden, Leende, North Brabant
- Sint Petrus' Banden, Oisterwijk, North Brabant
- Sint Petrus' Banden, Overschie, Rotterdam
- Sint Petrus' Banden, Son, North Brabant
- Sint Petrus' Banden, Venray, Limburg
[edit] Spain
- San Pedro ad Víncula, Castillejo del Romeral, Cuenca
- San Pedro ad Víncula, Liérganes, Cantabria
- San Pedro ad Víncula, Saelices de Mayorga, Valladolid
- San Pedro ad Víncula, San Pedro Castañero, León
- San Pedro ad Víncula, San Pedro Palmiches, Cuenca
- San Pedro ad Víncula, Vallecas, Madrid
- San Pedro ad Víncula, Villalpardo, Cuenca
[edit] United Kingdom
[edit] England
In England sixteen churches hold this dedication:
- St Peter ad Vincula, Bottesford, Lincolnshire
- St Peter ad Vincula, Broad Hinton, Wiltshire
- St Peter ad Vincula, Coggeshall, Essex
- St Peter ad Vincula, Colemore, Hampshire
- St Peter ad Vincula, Combe Martin, Devon
- St Peter ad Vincula, Coveney, Cambridgeshire
- St Nicholas and St Peter ad Vincula, Curdworth, Warwickshire
- St Peter ad Vincula, Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire[1]
- St Peter ad Vincula, London - the Chapel Royal in the Tower of London
- St Peter ad Vincula, South Newington, Oxfordshire
- St Peter ad Vincula, Stoke-upon-Trent - now Stoke Minster
- St Peter ad Vincula, Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire[2]
- St Peter ad Vincula, Threekingham, Lincolnshire
- St Peter ad Vincula, Tibberton, Worcestershire
- St Peter ad Vincula, Tollard Royal, Wiltshire[3]
- St Peter ad Vincula, Wisborough Green, West Sussex
- St Peter ad Vincula, Folkington, East Sussex.
[edit] Wales
- St Peter ad Vincula, Pennal, the chapel of Owain Glyndŵr at Pennal in Wales
[edit] USA
[edit] Schools
[edit] References
- ^ "Hampton Lucy - St. Peter ad Vincula, Hampton Lucy". A Church Near You. The Church of England. http://www.achurchnearyou.com/hampton-lucy-st-peter-ad-vincula/. Retrieved 16 June 2010.
- ^ Village Park Residents Association: St.Peters Church (sic)
- ^ Salisbury Diocesan Guild of Ringers: East Dorset Branch - Tollard Royal, St Peter ad Vincula
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