. Saint Peter and the first years of Christianity . :*>< IIir\c ^ ^ ^ r ^cX^^ II n Gute C/ELIANHILL // SAINT PETER AND THE JEWS OF ROME. 247 sion, in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithy-nia, who sojourn among the Gentiles. . May graceand peace abound among you more and more. ^ We have no details as to the establishing of these firstChristian congregations in Asia Minor; even the namesof the towns which Peter evangelized are unknown to-day. Two Churches in Pontus, Amasea and Sinope,glory in the belief that he was their founder. ^ Thistradition, taken together with Saint Epiph
. Saint Peter and the first years of Christianity . :*>< IIir\c ^ ^ ^ r ^cX^^ II n Gute C/ELIANHILL // SAINT PETER AND THE JEWS OF ROME. 247 sion, in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithy-nia, who sojourn among the Gentiles. . May graceand peace abound among you more and more. ^ We have no details as to the establishing of these firstChristian congregations in Asia Minor; even the namesof the towns which Peter evangelized are unknown to-day. Two Churches in Pontus, Amasea and Sinope,glory in the belief that he was their founder. ^ Thistradition, taken together with Saint Epiphanius testi-mony that the Apostle returned several times to revisitBithynia and Pontus, ^ gives us some reason to believethat he traversed chiefly the shores of the Black Antioch he probably went up to these regions byway of Cappadocia, returning tlience across Galatiatowards one of the harbors whence he could sail for theItalian coasts. Saint Paul, who journeyed over AsiaMinor at different times, never followed this route, everfaithful to his rule of not building upon the founda-tions of anoth
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