Apostles’ Tombs, and What’s Notre Dame?

Every diocesan bishop in the world is obliged to make a pilgrimage — every five years — to pray and offer Holy Mass at the tombs of the apostles, Peter and Paul. It’s an ancient tradition for bishops to make themselves pilgrims at the tombs of those holy men, in the Roman basilicas of St. Peter and St. Paul Outside the Walls. And that tradition has been for centuries a normative expectation.

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