My Name Is Saul

<p><strong>“The time I was born for is here. I will wage war against these Christians and I will emerge victorious. My name is Saul.”</strong></p><p> </p><p>St. Paul the Apostle is a towering biblical figure but almost nothing is known about his early life as Saul of Tarsus.</p><p>As death loomed over him at Mamertine Prison in Rome under the watchful eye of his jailer and final follower Aurelius he wrote:</p><p><em>            I will die tomorrow. In the morning around sunrise.</em></p><p><em>There are two things for which I am eminently grateful: That I have been permitted to have fought the good fight and finished the race marked out for me; and that I will not have to endure another winter in this place.</em></p><p> Starting from that pivotal moment blending historical fact with audacious creativity the author of the award-winning <em>I Claudia</em> propels us back through the life of the man who would become St. Paul. Her vividly imagined well-founded tale of loss transformation and divine intervention will captivate believers and non-believers alike who yearn for the human truth and drama behind the scriptures. “I am convinced that Saul is a man for our times” explains Wilder “primarily because he was interested in just one thing: truth.”</p>