• St. John was the first to reach the sepulchre, but St. Peter the first to enter it. John 20:4:⁠— “So they ran both together; and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. And he, stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in. Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie.” ↩
• Dante, Convito , II 4, speaking of the motion of the Primum Mobile, or Crystalline Heaven, which moves all the others, says:⁠— “From the fervent longing which each part of that ninth heaven has to be conjoined with that Divinest Heaven, the Heaven of Rest, which is next to it, it revolves therein with so great desire, that its velocity is almost incomprehensible.” ↩
• St. Peter and the other Apostles after Pentecost. ↩
• Both three and one, both plural and singular. ↩
• Again the sign of the Trinity. ↩
• The Heaven of the Fixed Stars continued. St. James examines Dante on Hope. ↩