St Paul fifth from left on the lower row of this 14th century panel by Paolo Veneziano
By Jo Briscoe
St. Paul, the Apostle We see in St. Paul the first clear portrait of a Christian missionary. No man before him felt himself responsible for the moral and spiritual welfare of his fellowmen and never before had any man struggled as he did to guide his people from falling into sin. St. Paul was the greatest of all missionaries although he had not read the Gospels, for they had not been written in his time! Unlike all missionaries from the end of the first century onward, he travelled across the world preaching the good news without the written Gospel in his hand! He was able to do this because his knowledge of Proclaimer Magazine: Home Page -8-
