Archaeologists discover the oldest images to date of the two great apostles.

In the unlikeliest of places, archaeologists found the oldest icons to date of St. Peter and St. Paul.

In the small catacombs of Santa Tecla, located on Via Ostiense in Rome, 500 meters from the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, archeologists found the icons in the same spot where, 9 years earlier, the discovery of the remains of a man had also been documented. Archaeologists identify these remains as those of St. Paul himself.

The icons were found four meters deep undeground, in a tiny cubicle of an old tomb located under an insurance company property built in the 1950s.