Matthew 16:18 question

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aside from refering to the papal legacy, can we see a literal fulfillment since the vatican the heart of the catholic church is built upon the bones of st peter?
 
could you elaborate? Yes, the tomb of St. Peter is underneath the Vatican.
Literal fulfillment of what?
well… literally, the Vatican is built upon the Rock of Peter.
 
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aside from refering to the papal legacy, can we see a literal fulfillment since the vatican the heart of the catholic church is built upon the bones of st peter?
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You know i’ve always thought about the same thing. I think that serves as a “clue” for those who are looking for the one true church.

“It is recorded that **Paul **was beheaded in Rome itself, and Peter, likewise, was crucified, during the reign [of the Emperor Nero]. The account is confirmed by the names of Peter and Paul over the cemeteries there, which remain to the present time. And it is confirmed also by a stalwart man of the Church, Gaius by name, who lived in the time of Zephyrinus [15th], bishop of Rome. This Gaius, in a written disputation with Proclus, the leader of the sect of Cataphrygians, says this of the places in which the remains of the aforementioned apostles were deposited: ‘I can point out the trophies of the apostles. For if you are willing to go to the Vatican or to the Ostian Way, you will find the trophies of those who founded this Church’” (Disputation with Proclus [A.D. 198] in Eusebius, Church History 2:25:5).

-Gaius

And you will find that Peter is in the Vatican, Paul in the Ostian Way.
 
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