“IF his shadow as a visitor was so healthful, what is his chain now that he bindeth and looseth. If his empty image in the air had healing power, how much power must have been contracted from his body by those chains, whose iron weight sank into his holy limbs during his suffering. If, before he testified, he was so mighty to aid them that called upon him, how much mightier is he now since his victory. Blessed were the links, doomed to be changed from fetters and shackles, into a crown, which by touching the Apostle, made him a Martyr. Blessed were the chains, whose prisoner left them for the Cross of Christ, and which brought him thither, not as the instruments of condemnation, but of sanctification.”
— St. Augustine, on St. Peter’s chains
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