Elles ont été offertes à la paroisse par le député de l’arrondissement, en 1865.Le « Saint-Pierre « est en ronde bosse, d’une hauteur de deux mètres environ. Le Saint-Paul ressemble étroitement à celui du Sacré Cœur d’Amiens réalisé en 1867.
The two statues of St. Peter and St. Paul are carved inside the buttresses on the western façade of the church of St. John the Baptist.
They were donated to the parish by the deputy of the borough in 1865. The "Saint-Pierre" is in a round hump, about two meters high. The Saint-Paul closely resembles that of the Sacré Coeur d'Amiens made in 1867.
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"Érigée à l'emplacement d'une petite chapelle qui existait déjà en 1101, l'église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Péronne, a été construite en pierre calcaire de 1509 à 1525 ; le clocher fut édifié en 1540.
En 1632, fut fondée une confrérie du Mont-Carmel qui avait son siège dans l'église.
À la Révolution française, la loi stipulait qu'il ne devait y avoir qu'une seule église paroissiale par commune, c'est ainsi qu'à Péronne, seule l'église Saint-Jean-Baptiste subsista. Fermée pendant la Terreur, elle fut rendue au culte sous le Directoire, en 1795. La restauration de l'édifice fut achevée en 1829.
L'église posséda au xixe siècle plusieurs tableaux du peintre péronnais Charles-Henri Michel : en 1847, la fabrique de l'église acheta son tableau, La compassion de la Vierge ; en 1854, il peignit pour l'église Le Baptême du Christ par Saint-Jean et, en 1859, l'État acheta au peintre Le Crucifiement et le mit en dépôt à l'église.
Pendant le siège de Péronne au cours de la guerre de 1870, l'église fut partiellement détruite par le feu prussien en 1870.
Le 25 septembre 1901, les grilles en fer forgé du chœur datant du xviiie siècle furent classées monument historique. Elles provenaient d’un don effectué en 1775 par un lieutenant criminel du bailliage de Péronne. L'église dans son ensemble est protégée au titre des monuments historiques : classement par arrêté du 13 décembre 1907. Deux tableaux, une peinture murale du xvie siècle, et deux retables furent également classés au titre d'objet."
"Erected on the site of a small chapel that already existed in 1101, the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Péronne, was built in limestone from 1509 to 1525; the bell tower was built in 1540.
In 1632, a brotherhood of Mont-Carmel was founded and had its headquarters in the church.
During the French Revolution, the law stipulated that there should be only one parish church per commune, so in Péronne, only the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste remained. Closed during the Terror, it was given back to worship under the Directoire in 1795. The restoration of the building was completed in 1829.
In the 19th century, the church owned several paintings by the Peronese painter Charles-Henri Michel: in 1847, the church factory bought his painting, The Compassion of the Virgin; in 1854, he painted for the church The Baptism of Christ by St. John and, in 1859, the State bought the painter The Crucifixion and put it on deposit in the church.
During the siege of Peronne in the war of 1870, the church was partially destroyed by Prussian fire in 1870.
On September 25, 1901, the wrought iron gates of the choir dating from the 18th century were classified as a historical monument. They came from a donation made in 1775 by a criminal lieutenant of the bailiwick of Péronne. The church as a whole is protected as a historical monument: classification by decree of December 13, 1907. Two paintings, a mural from the 16th century, and two altarpieces were also classified as objects".
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"Paul de Tarse ou saint Paul, portant aussi le nom juif de Saul, né au début du ier siècle probablement à Tarse en Cilicie et mort vers 67 à Rome, est une personnalité du paléochristianisme. Juif et citoyen romain de naissance, il persécute les disciples de Jésus de Nazareth avant de se revendiquer apôtre de ce dernier, bien qu'il n'appartienne pas au cercle de Douze.
Paul de Tarse devient dès lors l'une des figures majeures de la diffusion du christianisme en-dehors des cercles juifs et judéo-chrétiens ainsi que dans certaines des premières communautés chrétiennes en Asie mineure, en Grèce et à Rome. La tradition chrétienne le surnomme pour cette raison l'« Apôtre des Gentils » c'est-à-dire des non-juifs, ou encore d'« Apôtre des Nations ».
Au cours de sa mission itinérante, qui s'étale des années 40 aux années 60, il adresse un certain nombre de lettres à ces nouvelles communautés. Ces lettres, dites « épîtres pauliniennes » écrites avant les Évangiles, sont les documents les plus anciens du christianisme. Elles représentent l'un des fondements de la théologie chrétienne, en particulier dans le domaine de la christologie, mais aussi, d'un point de vue historique, une source majeure sur les origines du christianisme."
"Paul the Apostle (commonly known as Saint Paul and also known by his Hebrew name Saul of Tarsus [Acts 9:11] was an apostle (although not one of the Twelve Apostles) who taught the gospel of Christ to the first-century world. Paul is generally considered one of the most important figures of the Apostolic Age and from the mid-30s to the mid-50s AD he founded several Christian communities in Asia Minor and Europe.
According to the New Testament book Acts of the Apostles (often simply called Acts), Paul participated in the persecution of the "embryonic Christian movement," more Hellenised diaspora Jewish members, in the area of Jerusalem, prior to his conversion. In the narrative of Acts, Paul was traveling on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus on a mission to "arrest them and bring them back to Jerusalem" when the ascended Jesus appeared to him in a great bright light. He was struck blind, but after three days his sight was restored by Ananias of Damascus and Paul began to preach that Jesus of Nazareth is the Jewish Messiah and the Son of God.[Acts 9:20–21] Approximately half of the book of Acts deals with Paul's life and works.
Thirteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament have traditionally been attributed to Paul. Seven of the Pauline epistles are undisputed by scholars as being authentic, with varying degrees of argument about the remainder. Pauline authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews is not asserted in the Epistle itself and was already doubted in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. It was almost unquestioningly accepted from the 5th to the 16th centuries that Paul was the author of Hebrews, but that view is now almost universally rejected by scholars. The other six are believed by some scholars to have come from followers writing in his name, using material from Paul's surviving letters and letters written by him that no longer survive. Other scholars argue that the idea of a pseudonymous author for the disputed epistles raises many problems.
Today, Paul's epistles continue to be vital roots of the theology, worship and pastoral life in the Latin and Protestant traditions of the West, as well as the Eastern Catholic and Orthodox traditions of the East. Paul's influence on Christian thought and practice has been characterized as being as "profound as it is pervasive", among that of many other apostles and missionaries involved in the spread of the Christian faith."