Peter, Not Paul, in Montreal
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Montreal (today: Montreal, Canada)
Montréal was, in a religious sense, a divided city, between English-speaking Protestants and French-speaking Catholics. One day the Master was talking with a group about the early days of Christianity. One of those present, a Protestant, asked a question about St. Paul. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá immediately thundered "Peter, not Paul!" May Maxwell said that the house almost shook with the emphasis the Master put on the name Peter. He refused to talk about Paul and would only talk about Peter.
Source: Earl Redman, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Their Midst, p. 183
Collected from bahaistories.com (Subject: abdul-baha-montreal).
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