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Christianity and historicity: Simon Peter "You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church". In the fisherman Simon that Jesus calls Peter there is something unique, even in the communion with all the others apostles. He will be the inflexible stone on which Christ founds his Church. "Thou shalt be called Cephas" that is stone. How can a man bring on himself such a big task?

	Document	published	level
	Peter, the Apostle - BENEDICT XVI	27/05/2009	*
	Peter, the fisherman - BENEDICT XVI	28/02/2009	*
	Peter, the rock - BENEDICT XVI	28/06/2009	*
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	Dossier - The Twelve Apostles	03/11/2008

Carsten Peter THIEDE, Simon Pietro dalla Galilea a Roma, (presentazione di Marta Sordi), Massimo, Milano 1999.

Stephen K. RAY, Upon This Rock: St. Peter and the Primacy of Rome in Scripture and the Early Church, Ignatius Press, 1999.