Conversion of St Paul

Feast: January 25
Every January the Church commemorates an event which proved a turning point in the history of Christendom: this is the feast day which celebrates the conversion of Saint Paul on his celebrated journey to Damascus - the first of three notable conversions in the history of the Church, which have had a powerful and lasting effect on the Church’s life and development. For each of them call was a distinct experience but closely connected with the actual moment or time of conversion. The other two are those of Augustine in the fourth century and of John Henry Newman in the nineteenth century.

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