That's questionable about why Peter was crucified as you suggest. Your lectures are some of the best that I have heard; wise, knowledgable, intelligent...and entertaining - thank you! Well done! The catacombs were not secret meeting places for Christians.
Church of the Nativity is located in Bethlehem (بيت لحم) in West Bank/Palestine. One has to get through the check point at the Israeli West Bank barrier, that is bigger than the Berlin Wall and can ponder on dialectics and human ability to learn. : - ( (36:44) Plan of Church of the Nativity BIRTH with the heading "Church of Nativity, Jerusalem c. 326 - 333 (36:53) Plan of Church of the Holy Sepulchre DEATH with the same heading,
For the record, the statute that is described as the "sons of Constantine" is better known as the "Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs" and most probably depicts the four co-emperors of the first tetrarchy, 2 augusti and 2 caesares, one of who being Constantius I, father of Constantine the Great. It is thought to be produced elsewhere and brought to Constantinople, as were many other relics, and placed in a forum when the city was made the new capital by Constantine.
