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 shameful of all deaths: he then entreated the officers that he might be crucified the ordinary way, but suffer with his head downward, and his feet up to heaven, as being unworthy to die in the same posture as his blessed Master, his body being taken down, was said to have been embalmed by Marcellinus the presbyter after the Jewish way, and then buried in the Vatican, where it lay obscurely until the reign of Constantine the great, who had so much reverence for this apostle, that he built a church in the Vatican to his memory, which is now one of the most famous cathedrals in the word. This account of his death, tho' not mentioned in the holy writ, is recorded by the ancient Ecclesiastical Historians, but with what certainly it is, wcwe [sic] must leave the reader to judge.