Saul of Tarsus, a Pharisee and persecutor of the early Church, was converted on the road to Damascus by a vision of the risen Christ (Acts 9). Taking the name Paul, he became the Apostle to the Gentiles, founding churches throughout the eastern Mediterranean and writing the letters that form a large part of the New Testament. He was martyred in Rome around AD 67.

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• missionaries
• evangelists
• writers

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