where was saint paul from?
Tarsus, Mersin
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 Saint Paul is the birthplace of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz ( Peanuts ) , who lived in Merriam Park from infancy until 1960 . Schulz 's Snoopy cartoon inspired giant , decorated Peanuts sculptures around the city , a Chamber of Commerce promotion in the late 1990s . Other notable residents include writer F. Scott Fitzgerald , playwright August Wilson , who premiered many of the ten plays in his Pittsburgh Cycle at the local Penumbra Theater , painter LeRoy Neiman , and photographer John Vachon . 

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 The main source on Paul 's life is the document of his confession before the patriarchal synod in Constantinople in 1394 , complemented by an account of his visit to Paris , written by a monk of the Abbey of Saint @-@ Denis . 

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 Paul received a magnificent welcome at Avignon , where he was fêted by Clement VII and his cardinals . Clement , moved by his guest 's tales of suffering at the hands of the Roman popes , loaded him with gifts and honours and sent him north to Paris . There , King Charles VI of France likewise prepared a triumphal welcome for his illustrious guest . Paul was an exotic and popular sight in the French capital , and was lavishly hosted and entertained . He obviously enjoyed his long sojourn there , " safe in a place where his past was unknown and his deception was unlikely to be discovered " , according to Nicol . For additional safety , he communicated only via an interpreter in his employ . On his visit to the Abbey of Saint @-@ Denis , he claimed that there were several relics of the abbey 's patron saint — commonly confused with the Athenian saint Dionysius the Areopagite — to be found back in Greece , and promised to help the monks bring them to France . His proposal was enthusiastically taken up , and two monks received permission and funds from the king to accompany Paul back to Greece . When the party arrived in the port in Italy from which they would sail for Greece , however , Paul bribed the captain of the ship to pretend that bad weather would delay their departure . In the same night , he and his servants set sail at night with their entire baggage , leaving the two monks behind . It was only in Rome , where they went in search of answers for Paul 's behaviour , that they learned the true identity of their travelling companion , and from where the chronicler of the abbey later received his information . 

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 During the pontificate of John Paul II , two members of Opus Dei , Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne and Julián Herranz Casado , were made cardinals . 

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 The Laroche family , father Joseph and daughters Simonne and Louise , were the only known passengers of black ancestry on board the ship . They , along with Joseph 's pregnant wife Juliette , were travelling to Joseph 's native island of Haiti . Joseph hoped that a move from their former home in Paris back to Haiti , where his uncle Cincinnatus Leconte was president , would take his family away from racial discrimination . 
