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Mamertine Prison

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

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Generally accepted as the one mentioned by Livy (I, 33), lies beneath the church of San Giuseppe dei Falegnami, Via di Marforio, Rome. According to tradition in the Acts of Saint Processus and Saint Martmlanus (6th century), Saint Peter was imprisoned in the lower cliamber or Tullianum where he baptized these saints, his jailers.

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Entry for 'Mamertine Prison'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​m/mamertine-prison.html. 1910.
 
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