Below is a brief writing about of Saint Paul the Apostle taken from "Butler's Lives of the Saints.
Of all the saints with whom we are made acquainted with through the pages of Holy Writ, St. Paul is the most intimately known to us. We possess not merely an exact external record of his doings, furnished by his disciple St. Luke, in the Acts of the Apostles, but we have his incomparable revelation of self in his letters, which while always prompted by no other purpose than to benefit those to whom he writes, lay bare his very soul. It would be difficult, without transcribing a great part of the New Testament, to draw a faithful portrait of the character of the Apostle of the Gentiles; and the New Testament it may assumed, is available to all. St. Luke records a brief summary of St. Paul's activities in the last 15 Chapters of the Acts of the Apostles.
Hopefully the above will be a bit helpful to us as we study the writings of St. Paul under the tutelage of Father Peter.
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Thanks, John. That is helpful. I really like St. Paul. I think his style is interesting, and the questions/arguments/issues he raises often really speak to me. I'm so glad we are doing this study.
I have been meaning to check out Dante's Paradiso to see how he introduces St. Paul. Sort of along the lines of Butler's Lives, but from a 14th century perspective! If I find something interesting, I'll post it!
This is unrelated, but... I saw in your profile that you like Russian History. Have you ever seen the animated version of Anistasia? I love that move! I think the Russian Zars and their courts had tremendous class and style during that erra. The art work was memorable too! I've got a half brother whos unrelated half to me is Russian/Jew. I find them fasinating too :)
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