St. Paul
St. Paul, the indefatigable Apostle of the Gentiles, was converted from Judaism on the road to Damascus. He remained some days in Damascus after his Baptism, and then went to Arabia, possibly for a year or two to prepare himself for his future missionary activity. Having returned to Damascus, he stayed there for a time, preaching in the synagogues that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. For this he incurred the hatred of the Jews and had to flee from the city. He then went to Jerusalem to see Peter and pay his homage to the head of the Church.
Later he went back to his native Tarsus, where he began to evangelize his own province until called by Barnabus to Antioch. After one year, on the occasion of a famine, both Barnabus and Paul were sent with alms to the poor Christian community at Jerusalem. Having fulfilled their mission they returned to Antioch.
Soon after this, Paul and Barnabus made the first missionary journey, visiting the island of Cypress, then Pamphylia, Pisidia, and Lycaonia, all in Asia Minor, and establishing churches at Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe.
After the Apostolic Council of Jerusalem Paul, accompanied by Silas and later also by Timothy and Luke, made his second missionary journey, first revisiting the churches previously established by him in Asia Minor, and then passing through Galatia. At Troas a vision of a Macedonian was had by Paul, which impressed him as a call from God to evangelize in Macedonia. He accordingly sailed for Europe, and preached the Gospel in Philippi. Thessalonica, Beroea, Athens, and Corinth. Then he returned to Antioch by way of Ephesus and Jerusalem.
On his third missionary journey, Paul visited nearly the same regions as on the second trip, but made Ephesus where he remained nearly three years, the center of his missionary activity. He laid plans also for another missionary journey, intending to leave Jerusalem for Rome and Spain. Persecutions by the Jews hindered him from accomplishing his purpose. After two years of imprisonment at Caesarea he finally reached Rome, where he was kept another two years in chains.
The Acts of the Apostles gives us no further information on the life of the Apostle. We gather, however, from the Pastoral Epistles and from tradition that at the end of the two years St. Paul was released from his Roman imprisonment, and then traveled to Spain, later to the East again, and then back to Rome, where he was imprisoned a second time and in the year 67, was beheaded.
St. Paul untiring interest in and paternal affection for the churches established by him have given us fourteen canonical Epistles. It is, however, quite certain that he wrote other letters which are no longer extant. In his Epistles, St. Paul shows himself to be a profound religious thinker and he has had an enduring formative influence in the development of Christianity. The centuries only make more apparent his greatness of mind and spirit. His feast day is June 29th.
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St. Paul rocks!
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Iplease dear St Paul Intercede for all my family and friends and children. We need a few Pauline Conversions here! Thanks!
Please pray to St Paul today for the healing of a very sick man named Paul who I was coincidentally a asked to pray for last night
He is only 40 with a wife and four children and has lost his job
Thanks Martina
St Michael introduced st Paul in my dreams, today 29 june, st michael said to me you can sleep little bit more beacause i want to show you someone want to meet you. then i dream a mann which preapering a drinks. then i wake upp. and st michael told me that he is st. Paul . St Paul just want to know you and want to be a friend of you, and st Michael told me, I just want to remind you that today 29 june is St Paul. feast day.Then i search in internett about St Paul, then i saw the face which appear in my dreams a dream the picture of not long hair, but the nose in picture is too much long, and in my dreams is just a normal long, and its true 29 june is his day. I dont know St Paul history before just now from this day.
This is very true from me , we will pray for St. Paul and remmeber his feast day.
Im not a clearvoyant and not a healer i dont know what is happpening to me.
I was really touched by Paul's tenacity in the face of difficulties. I resolve to apply same to my difficult moments
After Reading a bit about st paul i have decided to have him in my my names for confirmation :) i only read the first bit not the wikipedia bit ;)
P.S My Dads names paul so =D
cOOOOL!
My spiritual guide, and my beloved Saint Paul.. U are a real warrior chosen by god for his ministry... How brave you should be to talk for the rights of gentiles..amidst of Apostles who lived with Jesus and who were all jews..Please help to speak what is gods will and help me also to live by an example rather than only speaking.. Give me the courage which you had to spread the good news with the help of the Spirit.. Help us also to be strong in faith and never be shaken by the wordly affairs.. Be my guide.. Thanks a lot my dear Saint.. I just got my problem solved when I am writing this.. Thanks for your intercessions.. Strengthen me and guide me in all stages of my life..Please pray for me..Amen
My Dear Apostle Paul, I dare say that if Christ had not chosen you to be his right hand man, at the time and manner as He did, today the infant church of Jesus would be some insignificant religious sect. I take this opportunity to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your presence and power in my life. I look forward sharing my life and times with you for as many more years to come. We've faced some testing times together and by grace of God you and I overcame them all one by one, and we had just as many fantastic times together which are unforgettable. My life is a living testimony to your incredible power of intercession and I do not recall you ever having disappointed me. This is understandable in light of your place in history and particularly in the story of Salvation. This time I appeal to you for URGENT help to save my friend from commiting suicide. Timmy was born on Sunday, 4th April 1976, to a Finnish family who immigrated to Sysney, Australia in 1970. Timmy's father was a hopeless alcoholic who drank his wages away in pubs and his mother a sober and hardworking mother desperately trying to feed her family of six on a small salary. Life was a every day srruggle for Timmy and his three elder brothers and two sisters but they managed to get by somehow. Timmy was 16 years old when his elder brother, a helpless haroin addict, talked him into smoking heroin telling him that it wasn't addicitve as it was same as smoking marijuana. Well, it didn't take long for Timmy to be a $300 a day heroin addict. In 2004 we funded his heroin treatment and Timmy lived a clean life with a well paid job, played sport and for hobby he restored 1962-1965 BMW with great success. And than 13 months ago Timmy met and fell madly in love with a young stunning lady who swept him off his feet. She was a heroin addict and now Timmy is back on the park benches of Sydney living like an animal and without hope of being rescued form his HELL. Apostle Paul, where there is life there is hope so please storm Heaven and plead Timmy's case before the Throne of Christ to rescue him and restore him to us, his terrified and torn family. AMEN
I consider this article on saint Paul as absolutely extraordinary : where would I find in my situation such information on this life as our model in the apostolate ?
Cute message....I loved it and I truly hope God will bless me and all of you
Oh wow! this site is so amazing, I'm doing my school project on him. He is so cool, i just wish that everybody in the world could be as awesome as him. He makes my friends and I want to be like him :D We love him so much. He is an inspiration to us all.
I made my moms, brothers, uncles, cousins, grandmas, best friends, aunties, father call his new dog Paul because that way when i see him i can be reminded of the great things St. Paul did.
- St. Paul Lover 98
this was so inspiring i want to be just liek him
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me and shaylee are doing this for our religion assigment yeaaaaah budddy.
XOXO GOSSIP GIRL.
Thx,
this is definetly gonna help me for picking a saint.
nice, this helped me a lot