St. Paul
Catholic Saints
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Caravaggio's Fall of Saul
In 1 Corinthians Paul talks about this as a scandal. To the Jews. It's a scandal to him when he was a Jew before his conversion. And so of course it's on that road to Damascus where he has his famous encounter with the Lord. Caravaggio fills in the horse to make the fall of Saul more dramatic. He puts the rump, the rear end of the horse, kind of front and center.
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