Religious Figure. He was chosen by the Disciples to replace Judas Iscariot following the latter's betrayal of Jesus and his subsequent death, thus made him the 12th Disciple. This is recorded in the first chapter of the book of Acts in the Bible but he is not mentioned again in the Bible. Since little is known about him before or after becoming a disciple, some believe that St. Paul was directly chosen by Jesus to be the 12th. It is known that he was baptized, then witnessed Jesus' miracles and heard Jesus' teachings but was not mentioned as part of the inner circle. He is considered a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches, Anglican Communion and Lutheran Church. He did document his traveling and works but only a small about the documentation survived to modern day. There are several conjectures about his death: After traveling to Georgia to bring the good news, he died and a marker for his grave was placed in the ruins of the Roman fortress at Gonio in the modern Georgian region of Adjara. Another claim is he died at Sebastopolis, and was buried there, near the "Temple of the Sun." Another theory is he was stoned at Jerusalem by the local populace, and then beheaded, and last he died of old age in Jerusalem. A fourteenth century historian did document that he traveled to Georgia. Some 200 years after his death, his relics are said to have been removed from the site in Georgia and interred in the Abbey of Santa Giustina, Padua, and the remaining in the Abbey of St. Matthias, Trier, Germany. At the German site, he was originally in a crypt beneath church but in the 21st century, he was placed in the church.
Religious Figure. He was chosen by the Disciples to replace Judas Iscariot following the latter's betrayal of Jesus and his subsequent death, thus made him the 12th Disciple. This is recorded in the first chapter of the book of Acts in the Bible but he is not mentioned again in the Bible. Since little is known about him before or after becoming a disciple, some believe that St. Paul was directly chosen by Jesus to be the 12th. It is known that he was baptized, then witnessed Jesus' miracles and heard Jesus' teachings but was not mentioned as part of the inner circle. He is considered a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches, Anglican Communion and Lutheran Church. He did document his traveling and works but only a small about the documentation survived to modern day. There are several conjectures about his death: After traveling to Georgia to bring the good news, he died and a marker for his grave was placed in the ruins of the Roman fortress at Gonio in the modern Georgian region of Adjara. Another claim is he died at Sebastopolis, and was buried there, near the "Temple of the Sun." Another theory is he was stoned at Jerusalem by the local populace, and then beheaded, and last he died of old age in Jerusalem. A fourteenth century historian did document that he traveled to Georgia. Some 200 years after his death, his relics are said to have been removed from the site in Georgia and interred in the Abbey of Santa Giustina, Padua, and the remaining in the Abbey of St. Matthias, Trier, Germany. At the German site, he was originally in a crypt beneath church but in the 21st century, he was placed in the church.
Bio by: Linda Davis
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