Pope Linus
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Pope Linus was the bishop of Rome from c. 68 to his death in 80. He is generally regarded as the second bishop of Rome, after Saint Peter. As with all the early popes, he was canonized.
10th-century Byzantine portrait of Linus from Menologion of Basil II in the Vatican Library
Paul the Apostle
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Paul, commonly known as Paul the Apostle or Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first century AD. For his contributions towards the New Testament, he is genera
Pope Linus
…person as the one mentioned in the New Testament. Linus is mentioned in the valediction of the Second Epistle to Timothy (2 Timothy 4:21) as being with Paul the Apostle in Rome near the end of Paul's life. The earliest reference to the episcopate of Linus was Irenaeus, who in c. 180 wrote that "the blessed apostles…
Painting in the Grotto of St. Paul, Ephesus, late 5th century
The Apostle Paul, portrait by Rembrandt (c. 1657)
The Conversion of Saul, a fresco by Michelangelo developed between 1542 and 1545
Conversion on the Way to Damascus, a 1601 portrait by Caravaggio