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St. Paul the Apostle
The Conversion of St. Paul (second version), oil on canvas by Caravaggio, 1601; in Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome.
In the late 50s, St. Paul the Apostle returned to Jerusalem to deliver funds he had raised for the local church. During this visit, he was arrested for allegedly taking a Gentile into the restricted precincts of the Temple of Jerusalem.1
Following his arrest, Paul underwent a series of trials. He was subsequently imprisoned in Caesarea for two years under the authority of the Roman official Felix. After appearing before the procurator Festus, Paul was sent to Rome. While the exact circumstances of his final journey are tied to these legal proceedings, tradition holds that he was later executed in Rome, possibly during the persecutions ordered by the emperor Nero following the great fire of 64 ce.123