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The Worst Room in Rome: Paul's Last Words from the Mamertine Prison
There's a prison in Rome that looks like nothing from the street, and it may be one of the most moving places you'll ever stand. The Mamertine began as a cistern carved into rock, with a hole in the ceiling as the only way in or out. Rome held its condemned there before execution, and church tradition says both Peter and Paul spent their final days in that room.
A spring still rises in the floor. By tradition, Peter used that water to baptize his guards and the other prisoners. New birth on one side of the room, and a drain carrying the dead to the river on the other. It's the gospel in…
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