Saint Peter was entirely bald, except for a single lock of hair that fell over his forehead. Once, while he and Lord Christ were travelling together, they came to a farmhouse where a woman was just cooking up some large yeast pancakes in grease. Saint Peter entered the house to beg for some pancakes, while the Lord waited outside. The woman gave Peter three pancakes. But Peter was selfish. When the pancakes were divided up, he quickly hid one of them in his cap, then put it on his head. He pretended that he had received only two pancakes, one of which he gave to the Lord.
The pancake under his cap was still hot, and it began to burn Peter terribly on the head, but he could not do anything about it; he just had to bear the pain. Later, when he took off his cap, he discovered that the hot pancake had burnt into his head a large bald spot, which remained with him as long as he lived. Only the lock of hair that had protruded from the front of his cap was spared. Thus Saint Peter’s bald head had one lock of hair in front.
