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Ananias of Damascus (/ ˌ æ n ə ˈ n aɪ ə s / AN-ə-NY-əs; Ancient Greek: Ἀνανίας, romanized: Ananíās; Aramaic: ܚܢܢܝܐ, romanized: Ḥananyō; "favoured of the L ORD") was a disciple of Jesus in Damascus, mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible, which describes how he was sent by Jesus to restore the sight of Saul of Tarsus (who later was called Paul the Apostle ...
While Saul was blinded from his vision and in chastened state ('he is praying', verse 11), Ananias, who was a resident of Damascus (verse 13) and a disciple of Christ (verse 10), received instructions with precise directions to Saul's address (verse 11; the 'street called Straight' is still shown in the Old City of Damascus). [5]
The Conversion of Saint Paul, Luca Giordano, 1690, Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy The Conversion of Saint Paul, Caravaggio, 1600. The conversion of Paul the Apostle (also the Pauline conversion, Damascene conversion, Damascus Christophany and Paul's transformation on the road to Damascus) was, according to the New Testament, an event in the life of Saul/Paul the Apostle that led him to cease ...
Jesus called him "Saul, Saul" [38] in "the Hebrew tongue" in the Acts of the Apostles, when he had the vision which led to his conversion on the road to Damascus. [39] Later, in a vision to Ananias of Damascus, "the Lord" referred to him as "Saul, of Tarsus". [40] When Ananias came to restore his sight, he called him "Brother Saul". [41]
Half of the picture is the vision Saul of Tarsus got. The Risen One with a cross was shown in bright colors, asking the fallen one: Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? (the artist wrote these words from the Acts of the Apostles on a canvas in Latin - Saule, Saule, quid me persequeris). The second half of the work is dark.
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Ananias Curing Saul's Blindness is a 1660 painting by Ciro Ferri, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It shows Ananias' visiting Paul of Tarsus to cure his temporary blindness (Acts 9:11-18).