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View of one of the four octagonal capitals called the "Capital of Saint Peter."
This capital represents two images of scenes from the life of the apostle Peter, taken from the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles.
The three arches on the right in all likelihood represents the episode of the apparition of Jesus to the apostles, after the resurrection, at the lake of Tiberias. Peter, throwing himself from the boat to reach the shore, holds his hand out to Jesus, who is calling him. Below the three left arches there is a scene of the resurrection of the disciple Tabitha, in the city of Jaffa, by the hand of Peter, as told in the Acts of the Apostles. The apostle lifts the disciple from his deathbed, while three witnesses observe the prodigious miracle.
The capital is made of high quality "sultan" stone. The background surface is rough while the figures are very smooth.
Five, apparently unused, capitals from the Crusader Period were discovered in the early 1800's by Father Viaud in a grotto north of the Basilica of the Annunciation. They depict episodes from the cannonical apostles and from apocryphal writings regarding the life of the apostles.
Most information from the Custodia Terrae Sanctae: Sanctuary Nazareth.
