St Paul - 24129764 Background * St Paul‚ originally known as Paul of Tarsus‚ is believed to have been born in 5 AD in Tarsus‚ Mersin and passed away in 67 AD in Rome. * Paul was born as a citizen of Rome and brought up through the Jewish faith by a well-known Rabbi. * Paul later became one of Jesus’ Apostles and we know this for as in one of his pieces he writes about the Last Supper. * It is believed that without Paul‚ the Major Religion known today as Christianity wouldn’t
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St. Judith/Jutta St. Judith of Kulmsee‚ also known as St. Judith of Prussia‚ was born circa 1200 in Thuringia (central Germany). She died on May 12‚ 1260 at Kulmsee in the Monastic State of the Teutonic Order. Judith imitated the life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary‚ who was the Duchess of Thuringia during her youth. Not much is known about her youth‚ but it is known that Judith was married at the age of 15 to a nobleman and bore his children. She raised her children in a contemplative and mystical
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St. Quiteria John 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this‚ that he lay down his life for his friends.” Are you willing to lay down for your life for your brothers and sisters in Christ? St. Quiteria and her sisters were not afraid to risk their lives to free Christians and wage war to stop others from being persecuted. St.Quiteria was born in the 2nd century in the city of Minho‚ Portugal to a mother that had nine daughters and was discussed by this. The mother had ordered the maid to kill
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this was known as Neoplatonism‚ which was what Augustine had taken to. (TeSelle) Neoplatonism was not as concrete in having one main idea‚ so it is important to pinpoint what Augustine’s take on it was. In an autobiographical work‚ The Confessions of St. Augustine‚ he writes on how Logos is the divine eternal world. In this writing he talks about the idea that the things being perceived are only a shadow of the intelligible world‚ “But having then read those books of the Platonists‚ and thence been
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3. Legends Use the two legends you found in your research. Summarize each legend. (Based on?) St. Patrick: To most people‚ St. Patrick is the man who brought a day of good times and green beer to pubs across the world. In reality‚ St. Patrick wasn’t made a saint until centuries after his death and he wasn’t even Irish. During his childhood‚ he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Ireland. During his years in slavery he converted to Christianity and once freed he did spend the rest of his life
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“Whoever from deep within her noble and zealous heart wishes to take up the cross let her first take up the arms necessary for such battles”. St. Catherine of Bologna once said. Her feast day is on March 9th. Catherine is the patroness of artists (Catholic Online‚ 1). I chose St. Catherine of Bologna because I have talent and a gift of drawing well. After I chose my saint‚ I realized that my first name of my godmother‚ Kasia‚ is Katherine. My godfather Arthur’s nickname is Art‚ both godparents are
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To the average person it was just another day in St. John’s‚ Newfoundland‚ however‚ to me it was much more. It marked the day I would run across Canada‚ from the Atlantic to the Pacific- from St. John’s to Victoria. As I stood upon a small inlet by the coast of St. John’s‚ I prepared myself for a journey of a lifetime. I tried to kick my feet into the bare sedimentary rock by the jagged coastline- bad idea‚ and I’d be needing those feet for a while. After hours of preparation‚ I was finally ready
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St. Lorenzo Ruiz St. Lorenzo Ruiz was a Filipino who lived in Binondo‚ Manila. He was born between the years 1600 -1610. His father was a Chinese while his mother was a Filipina. At a young age‚ he was already active in the church since he served as an altar boy in the Binondo Church. He was educated by the Dominican Friars and was given the title escribano or calligrapher since he had good penmanship. He had a family and he was married to a woman named Rosario. They had 3 children‚ 2 sons
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raised by readings of the stories in the Gospels. According to Matthew and Luke – either for entertainment or theological purposes. As mentioned previously‚ Ehrman (2016) argues that as time passed and more Christians became familiar with the stories surrounding Jesus‚ Christians grew curious about the seemingly less important characters that were brushed over and began to wonder why a woman such as Mary was chosen to bear the Son of God. The Proto-Gospel of James intention clearly is to answer this
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painting struck me in color the most; the contrast between the pastels like colors in the sky vs the richness in color of the earthly world. The temptation of St. Anthony is an often-repeated subject in history of art and literature; a bibli-cal myth concerning the supernatural temptation faced by Saint Anthony in the Egyptian desert. St. Anthony was tempted by the earthly desires who‚ are presented as devils and demons. Grunewald distorts the figures to intensify the violence and aggression that
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