“On the twenty-ninth of June, in the year 67, whilst Peter, having crossed the Tiber by the triumphal bridge, was drawing nigh to the cross prepared for him on the Vatican plain, another martyrdom was being consummated on the left bank of the same river … Paul fell on his knees, addressing his last prayer to God; then having bandaged his eyes, he awaited the death-stroke.”
- Dom Prosper Guéranger, The Liturgical Year
