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[[Image:Apostle Paul.JPG|right|frame|StSf. PaulPavel]]The holy, glorious, all-laudable '''Apostle Paul''' was not one of the Twelve [[ApostlesApostol]]i. Paul was the "Apostle to the Gentiles" (Romans 11:13, Galatians 2:8, 1 Timothy 2:7), being [[convert]]ed while on the road to Damascus by [[JesusIisus Hristos]] Himself. The Church remembers St. Paul together with St. Peter on [[June 29iunie]].

== Life Viaţa==Named Saul at his birth in the city of Tarsus, the holy apostle was a son of the tribe of Benjamin. Saul became a Pharisee under Gamaliel, one of the chief Jewish Rabbis (Masters/Teachers) of the day. After his study under the great Rabbi, Saul became one of the chief persecutors of Christians. Present at the stoning of St . [[Apostle Stephen the ProtomartyrApostolul Ştefan (Întâiul-mucenic)|StephenŞtefan]] ([[Acts of the Apostles|ActsFaptele Apostolilor]] 7: 58), Saul later found himself blinded by [[Jesus]] Himself himself on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1-22). Sought out by the [[Apostle AnaniasApostolul Anania]], Saul immediately repented and Ananias Anania baptized him. Saul, soon after his conversion called Paul, was later named and numbered among the [[ApostlesApostol]]i. The extent of Paul's preaching as he spread the [[Gospel]] went far and wide from Arabia to Spain, to both Jews and Gentiles. He was called the "Apostle to the Gentiles." Paul spent his new life in suffering and labor for Christ, establishing and organizing churches everywhere. He reached such a state of perfection that he was able to say to the Church at Galatia: "not I, but Christ lives in me" ([[Galatians]] 2:20). Like the [[Apostle BarnabasApostolul Varnava]], Paul studied under Gamaliel.

The account of Paul's [[missionary]] journeys and the letters he wrote to the Churches he founded form an important part of the [[New Noul Testament]]. St. Paul was made a [[martyrmucenic]]ed with the [[Apostle PeterApostolul Petru]] under [[Nero]] by beheading.

== Letters ==The Church has [[Canon (Bible)|canonized]] several of his [[epistleApostol (liturgică)|apostol]]s i to the churches, including:

== Feasts & and Fasts ==The life of St. Paul, his letters in particular, are celebrated in the Orthodox Church with annual feasts and fasts. Being one of the four seasonal [[fastpostul|posturi]]s, the fast of Sts. Peter & Paul is the summer fast that begins nine days after [[Pentecost]], and continues until their joint [[feast day]] of June 29.

== Intercessions ==

==HymnsCântări==[[TroparionTropar]] ([[Tone]] 4) 

[[KontakionCondac]] (Tone 2) 

[[Kontakion]] Condac (Tone 2) 

==SourceSursa==*StSf. [[Nikolai VelimirovicNicolae (Velimirovici)]], ''The [[Prologue of OhridPrologul de la Ohrida]]''

==External linksLegături externe==

*[http://goarch.org/en/chapel/saints.asp?contentid=103 Peter and Paul, the Holy Apostles] ([[GOARCHArhiepiscopia Ortodoxă Greacă din America]])

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