To the present day one doesn’t know for sure where any of the apostles is buried. No doubt God didn’t wish us to know this in order that we might avoid idolatry. However, this is quite certain, that most of the martyrs were buried in Rome. But now this city has become a harlot.
I wouldn’t take one thousand florins for not having seen Rome because I wouldn’t have been able to believe such things if I had been told by somebody without having seen them for myself. We were simply laughed at because we were such pious monks. A Christian was taken to be nothing but a fool. I know priests who said six or seven masses while I said only one. They took money for them and I didn’t. In short, there’s no disgrace in Italy except to be poor. Murder and theft are still punished a little, for they must do this. Otherwise no sin is too great for them. — Martin Luther 1542
