He was the keeper of the garments

of the false witnesses and stoners,
approving the death of holy Stephen.
Now he is a column in the living temple,
as sturdy as a palm
as vibrant as a cedar of Lebanon.

Sequence for the Conversion of St. Paul

If Paul were alive today

....to make himself heard, he would ascend the highest pulpits and multiply his words with every means that progress offered: press, movies, radio, television....

Bl. James Alberione

Paul experienced it all:

rejection, calumny, indifference, shipwrecks, imprisonment and, ultimately, martyrdom as symbolized in art by Paul holding a sword.

Bishop Michael Saltarelli

In the presence of Paul

many people come to a halt as if face-to-face with a very high mountain whose peak they despair of reaching.

Blessed James Alberione

[Paul's] letters can be down to earth

and practical, but almost always with a rhetorical flair (whether deliberate or not) that communicated with the utmost effectiveness.

Michael J. Gorman
Apostle of the Crucified Lord
Eerdmans

Pray and act

as Paul did in Christ.

Blessed James Alberione

He taught justice to all the world

and, when he had reached the limits of the western world,
he gave his witness before those in authority; then he left this world and was taken up into the holy place, a superb example of endurance.

Pope St. Clement I