All Day
August 1, 2021
Herod Agrippa had Saint Peter imprisoned, and ordered guards to be bound to him on both sides with chains so that he could not escape. The night before he was to be condemned, St. Peter was peacefully sleeping in his prison cell between his two guards bound tightly by two chains. He was unafraid of death and ready to do God's will. Suddenly an angel appeared and tapped him on the side to awaken him. He told him to get up at once, put on his cloak and sandals and follow him. At the same moment, both the chains fell from his hands! Out the two went, past two sets of guards, to the gate. This iron gate opened to them by itself and the angel led St. Peter out to the street. Then he disappeared.
The chains that bound Saint Peter are here in Rome, in the Basilica of Saint Peter in Chains.
