Chair of St. Peter–W (II) – (Comm. St. Paul, Apostle)

Early martyrologies indicate that two liturgical feasts were celebrated in Rome, centuries before the time of Charles the Bald, in honor of earlier chairs associated with Saint Peter, one of which was kept in the baptismal chapel of Saint Peter’s Basilica, the other at the catacomb of Priscilla. [5] The dates of these celebrations were January 18 and February 22. No surviving chair has been identified with either of these chairs. The feasts thus became associated with an abstract understanding of the “Chair of Peter,” which by synecdoche signifies the episcopal office of the Pope as Bishop of Rome, an office considered to have been first held by Saint Peter, and thus extended to the diocese, the See of Rome.