Early Christians created a cult of Paul the martyr, centered on particular holy sites and characterized by storytelling, pilgrimage, and the veneration of relics. This study integrates literary, archaeological, artistic, and liturgical evidence to describe the development of the Pauline cult within the cultural context of the late antique West.

David L. Eastman is Lecturer in New Testament Greek and Christian History at Yale Divinity School. He is a contributing author to "Cities of Paul: Images and Interpretations from the Harvard New Testament and Archaeology Project" (Fortress) and has worked with the Ohio State University Excavations at Isthmia, Greece.