“About thirty years after Jesus entrusted the keys of His Church to St. Peter, St. Paul the Apostle came here to Rome. He had been preaching around the Mediterranean, laying the foundations of our Mother the Church, and when he came to this city he was thrown into prison, because the authorities were frightened of him—as far as they were concerned, he was a revolutionary. And like a revolutionary, he continued to organise, even from his cell. In the year AD 62 or 63, he sent one of his ministers, Tychicus, back to Ephesus, where he’d lived for three years, to deliver that remarkable letter to
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