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Where did St. Peterās family come from in Galilee?
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St. Peter the Apostle
St. Peter the Apostle, painting by Gerardus Laurentius Keultjes, 1816; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
St. Peterās family originally came from Bethsaida, a town in Galilee.1