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The Conversion on the Way to Damascus, by Caravaggio, 1601
Paul
Pharisee from Tarsus who persecuted the early church, then encountered the risen Jesus on the road to Damascus and became the apostle to the gentiles.
Paul, born Saul of Tarsus in Cilicia (modern Turkey), was a Pharisee and a Roman citizen by birth. A zealous persecutor of the early church, he was struck blind and converted on the road to Damascus around AD 34. After years of preparation he became the apostle to the gentiles, undertaking three major missionary journeys around the eastern Mediterranean and founding churches across Asia Minor and Greece. His letters — Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, and the rest — make up almost half of the New Testament. He was martyred in Rome under Nero, around AD 65.
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