Peter and Paul are kept together on June 29, the day tradition assigns to their martyrdom in Rome under Nero. Peter was the Galilean fisherman whom Jesus named the Rock, the leader of the Twelve and the first to confess him as the Christ; Paul was the Pharisee who hunted the church until the risen Christ stopped him on the Damascus road and made him the apostle to the Gentiles. Two more different men could hardly be imagined, and the church remembers them on one day because between them they carried the whole gospel, to the Jew and to the Gentile, and both gave their lives for it in the same city.