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A:Yes. In the third century, Origen was the first to say that the apostle Peter was crucified upside down. Previously, there was a somewhat different tradition that Peter was beheaded, beginning with Pope Anicetus in the second century.

We know the legend does not date back to the latter years of the first century, because Clement of Rome, writing around 95 CE (1 Clement), spoke in general terms about the life and death of Peter but appears to have been unaware that Peter had visited Rome or that he had been executed in any way at all.

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