[Magdalen] Lenten Madness

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Grace, if you're interested in this, just open up Google search engine and
click on the word "images" over on the right. Then input "conversion of st
paul"

There are dozens of renderings by great painters, and almost all of them
show Paul having been knocked off his horse. It's one of those
extra-biblical traditions, like Hanukkah.

I'm not sure where the tradition comes from, but I'm sure M or some other
person will be happy to tell us allll about it.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 3:45 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> James,
> I have looked and looked, and I can’t find any mention in Scripture of
> Paul’s being on a horse.
>
> Kind of like the idea that there were 3 Wise Men...   no number and no
> names ever show up.
>
>
>
> > On Feb 16, 2018, at 1:41 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Lenten Madness has begun and started with a smack-down between Peter and
> > Paul.
> >
> > It looks like Peter is edging out Paul.
> >
> > Several folks claimed that Peter was the patron of screw-ups, but it
> seems
> > to me Paul certainly qualifies as one who messed pretty darn badly also,
> > and finally admitted the error of his ways when Jesus knocked him off his
> > horse.
> >
> > Peter denied Christ several times, but Paul was instrumental in the death
> > of some of Christ's followers. There had to have been a tremendously
> > difficult task of reconciliation there. I certainly couldn't go through
> > that.
> >
> > James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> > *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> > except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>