The best account we have is the Life of St. Patrick by a scholar named Muirchú. This hagiography–or biography of a saint–was ...
It’s because that’s where the cathedra, the “chair” or seat of the bishop. The episcopal “chair” is the sign of his spiritual ... stands above St. Peter’s tomb.
The site is located a few feet beneath St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. It contains carved marble sarcophagi, frescoes and mosaics, and tombs filled with the bones ... that the tomb of St. Peter ...