Tarsus, Turkey CNN — It has a 7,000-year-old ... who can often be found sharing his knowledge with tourists at Saint Paul Café and Restaurant, owned by his family. “Even now, students come ...

I would like to devote these two catecheses to him. And the history of Paul of Tarsus is emblematic in this regard. In the first chapter of the Letter to the Galatians, as in the narration of the ...

We've often viewed Paul as some sort of handworker. He may be actually from the upper artisan class. His family may have owned the business back in Tarsus. We're not absolutely sure but it's quite ...

but also by a group of influential early converts who had never heard him preach firsthand — of which Paul, also known as Saul of Tarsus, was one of the most influential. This was a period ...

The Bible introduces Paul, not as an apostle, but a soul of Tarsus, a Pharisee and enemy of the church, who persecutes Christians and all that they stand for, a threat to the ancient religion of ...

is the commemoration of the martyrdom in Rome of the apostles Simon Peter and Paul of Tarsus, celebrated on June 29. As Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI recalled in 2012, "Christian tradition has always ...