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unusual facts about The Apostle


Dino Kartsonakis

Dino received a participation Grammy Award in 1999 for his work on the soundtrack of the movie The Apostle.


Track spikes

Whether the apostle here means stout, well-tanned leather, leather well prepared, by his "preparation of the gospel of peace" or shoes which had spikes in them, which, running into the ground, gave a steadfastness to the soldier who wore them, may come under remark hereafter.


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Bardez

Among Goan Catholics, it is famous as the birthplace of Venerable Fr. Agnelo, one of the two most prominent Goan saints, the other being Blessed Joseph Vaz, the "Apostle of Sri Lanka".

Catechumen

It is recorded in the Bible that Paul the Apostle, who started out as a Jewish persecutor of the Church, underwent sudden conversion on the way to Damascus when Jesus Christ appeared to him in a vision.

Christopher Fulwood

His strict impartiality as a magistrate is commemorated by the ‘apostle of the Peak,’ William Bagshaw.

Church of San Francisco, Castro

That same year, a church was built with the name of the apostle James (Santiago in Spanish), which was to be used in the evangelization of the indigenous peoples of Chiloé.

Coeli

Santa Maria Scala Coeli is a church on the site of St Paul the Apostle's prison on Via delle Tre Fontane in Rome.

Epistles of Clement

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church includes in their wider Biblical canon an epistle traditionally attributed as written by the apostle Paul to Clement.

Five Holy Wounds

The examination of the wounds by "Doubting Thomas" the Apostle, reported only in the Gospel of John at John 20:24-29, was the focus of much commentary and often depicted in art (where the subject has the formal name of the Incredulity of Thomas.

Gary Raymond

Subsequent films included: The Moonraker (1958), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), El Cid (1961), The Playboy of the Western World (1962), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), and The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), as the apostle Simon bar Jonah who becomes Peter the Rock.

George Garmo

Also, while serving as Pastor for Mother of God Church on September 1977, Garmo received Sarhad Yawsip Jammo as an Associate Pastor, who later be named the first bishop of the St. Peter the Apostle Diocese in the US.

Horacio Agulla

Horacio Agulla attended St. Felipe The Apostle School in Don Torcuato, a suburb in The Province of Buenos Aires).

Indian Pentecostal Church of God

According to tradition, the Apostle reached Muziris, India in 52 AD and baptized several people.

John the Presbyter

The Decretum Gelasianum associated with Pope Gelasius I, though of later date, follows Jerome in accepting one letter of "John the apostle" and two letters of the "other John the elder".

Jorge Mañach

His studies of José Martí, the 'Apostle of Cuban Independence', are estimated to be one of the best political and literal interpretations.

Justina of Padua

The tombs of several saints are housed in the interior, including those of Justina, Prosdocimus, St. Maximus, St. Urius, St. Felicitas, St. Julian, as well as relics of the Apostle St. Matthias and the Evangelist St. Luke.

Kambah, Australian Capital Territory

St Thomas the Apostle Primary opened in 1977, and is a systemic Catholic primary school, under the direction of the Canberra Goulburn Catholic Education Office.

Litton, Derbyshire

This was the birthplace in 1628 of William Bagshaw, the celebrated Nonconformist divine called the “Apostle of the Peak”.

Nedumpally

The earliest known source connecting the apostle to India is the Acts of Thomas, written in Edessa likely in the 2nd century.

Norwalk Catholic Schools

The responsibility for its operation is shared between the Norwalk-area Roman Catholic parishes of St. Mary Mother of the Redeemer Church and St. Paul the Apostle in Norwalk and St. Anthony of Padua in Milan.

Oleg Molenko

The peculiarity of Father Oleg's ecclesiastical position is the so-called mystery of John the Theologian - the teaching that in the last times the whole Church of Christ will be led by the Apostle John the Theologian in the flesh

Oommen

According to Syrian Christian history, Mar Thoma (St. Thomas), the Apostle of Christ established the Christian Church in India.

Opera Quotannis

The ensemble's first production was in January 1991, Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, with counter-tenor Derek Lee Ragin as Orpheus and soprano Tracey Mitchell as Euridice, with a period-instrument orchestra, at the Church of St Paul the Apostle at Lincoln Center.

Ourense Cathedral

Other decorations include an allusion to the miracle of St Martin who is depicted tearing his cloak in two as well as the figure of James the apostle (known as Santiago in Spanish).

Philip Berrigan

Berrigan helped set up Jonah House as the community headquarters of the organisation, a terraced house in, Reservoir Hill, later moved to St. Peter the Apostle Cemetery in West Baltimore.

Prosdocimus

The cathedral at Feltre is dedicated to him and Saint Peter the Apostle, and the artist Il Pordenone (c. 1483 - 1539) created a work depicting Prosdocimus with Peter.

Psalm 109

The Apostle Peter quoted this verse, before the apostles elected the replacement for Judas Iscariot in Acts 1:16-26.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Digne

The former diocese of Digne was evangelized by Saints Domninus and Vincentius who came from North Africa in the second half of the fourth century with Saint Marcellinus, the Apostle of Embrun.

Saint Andrew of Patras

The cross of the apostle was presented to the Bishop of Patras Nicodemus by the Roman Catholic delegation led by cardinal Roger Etchegaray.

Self-portrait as the Apostle Paul

Self-portrait as the Apostle Paul is a 1661 self portrait by the Dutch artist Rembrandt.

Simon Mark Aiken

Subsequently he was Vicar respectively at St Thomas the Apostle, Musbury, Helmshore (1994-1999), and at St Lawrence with St Paul, Longridge, north east of the city of Preston (1999-2006).

Sison, Pangasinan

It is under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Urdaneta (from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan, Archdioecesis Lingayensis-Dagupanensis, created on May 19, 1928, elevated to Archdiocese on February 16, 1963, comprising the capital of the province, 2 cities and 15 municipalities in the central part of Pangasinan; Suffragans: Alaminos, Cabanatuan, San Fernando, La Union, San Jose, Nueva Ecija and Urdaneta; Titular: St. John the Apostle and Evangelist).

Sisters of Mercy of St. Borromeo

The members placed themselves under the patronage of St. Charles Borromeo, called the "Apostle of Charity", and adopted the constitutions drawn up by Dom Epiphane Louys, Abbot of Estivals and Vicar General of the reformed Premonstratensians.

St Thomas the Apostle, Hanwell

St Thomas the Apostle is a Church of England church, which is situated along Boston Road in Hanwell, in the London Borough of Ealing.

St. Andreas, Hildesheim

The earliest church building on the Treibeinsel dedicated to the Apostle Andreas (Andrew) was a simple pre-Romanesque chapel, which already existed at the death of Bishop Bernward in 1022.

St. Patrick Catholic Secondary School

Known as the "Apostle of Ireland", he is the primary patron saint of the island along with Saints Brigid and Columba.