Reggio Calabria, Italy, Jul 11, 2020 / 04:00 am (CNA).- The imprisonment of St. Paul in Rome, and his eventual martyrdom, are well-known. But days before the apostle set foot in the capital of the Roman Empire, he landed on another city’s shores — and in one miraculous night he established the Christian community on the Italian peninsula.
Reggio Calabria, a city on the southernmost tip of Italy, preserves the relic — and the legend — of St. Paul and the burning column.
In its final chapters, the Acts of the Apostles recounts the harrowing journey of St. Paul from Ceasarea to Rome in A.D. 61.
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