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The Apostle Paul, portrait by ... [295] a Christian shares in Jesus' death and in his victory over death, gaining as a free gift a new, justified status of sonship. [296]
The death of Paul the Apostle Martyrdom of St. Paul , a 1556 painting by Jacopo Tintoretto Martyrdom of Paul , a c. 1529-1535 drawing by Pieter Coecke van Aelst
The oldest known images of some of the apostles are in the catacombs of St Tecla in Rome, dated to the 4th century. [8] The frescoes include Paul, Peter, John and Andrew, serving as a funerary devotional image, to protect the occupants of the tomb. [8]
Accused of blasphemy at his trial, he made a speech denouncing the Jewish authorities who were sitting in judgment on him [3] and was then stoned to death. Saul of Tarsus—later known as Paul the Apostle, a Pharisee and Roman citizen who would later become an apostle—participated in Stephen's execution. [4]
San Paolo alle Tre Fontane , in English "St Paul at the Three Fountains" is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to Paul the Apostle, at the presumed site of his martyrdom in Rome. In Latin it is known as Sancti Pauli ad Aquas Salvias ("St Paul at Aquae Salviae").
Paul's tomb is below a marble tombstone in the basilica's crypt, at 1.37 metres (4.5 ft) below the altar. The tombstone bears the Latin inscription PAULO APOSTOLO MART ("to Paul the apostle and martyr"). The inscribed portion of the tombstone has three holes, two square and one circular. [13]
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Soon after followed a series of arrests, death sentences and attempts to kill her, all of which she survived. Her cult following grew and spread around the Mediterranean world, reaching Rome as well. One rendering of the legend has Thecla travelling to Rome to see the Apostle Paul, who was later put to death in the city. [5]