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Matthew in a painted miniature from a volume of Armenian Gospels dated 1609, held by the Bodleian Library. Matthew is mentioned in Matthew 9:9 [5] and Matthew 10:3 [6] as a tax collector (in the New International Version and other translations of the Bible) who, while sitting at the "receipt of custom" in Capernaum, was called to follow Jesus. [7]
St. Matthew's is dedicated to the Matthew the Apostle, who among other things is the patron saint of civil servants, having himself been a tax collector.It was established in 1840 by pastor Father William Matthews and parochial vicar Father John Philip Donelan.
The apostle Matthew appears under this name only in the Gospel according to Matthew: [31] he is shown seated at "a toll booth" where Jesus comes to fetch him; [notes 9] the Gospel according to Mark repeats the scene identically, but calls the character "Levi" (as does the Gospel according to Luke [32]) and specifies that he is "the son of ...
The Kennedy family said goodbye to a beloved matriarch.. On Oct. 16, a memorial was held for Ethel Kennedy, at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C. The heartwarming service ...
Saint Matthew is a marble sculpture of Matthew the Apostle by Michelangelo. It was intended for a series of twelve apostles for the choir niches of Florence Cathedral, but was left unfinished in 1506 when Michelangelo moved to Rome to work for Pope Julius II. It is currently part of the collection of the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence.
[8] [9] Most scholars think Matthew used the Gospel of Mark and the hypothetical sayings Gospel Q (which consists of the material Matthew shares in common with Luke) [10] [11] and is the product of the second generation of the Christian movement, though it draws on the memory of the first generation of the disciples of Jesus. [12] [13]
Ephigenia of Ethiopia or Iphigenia of Ethiopia (Spanish: Efigenia; Portuguese: Ifigénia/Ifigênia; French: Iphigénie; Greek: Ἰφιγένεια), also called Iphigenia of Abyssinia, [6] [note 2] is a Western folk saint whose life is told in the Golden Legend [8] as a virgin converted to Christianity and then consecrated to God by Matthew the Apostle, who was spreading the Gospel to the ...
Matthew the Apostle (Saint Matthew) (Koine Greek: Ματθαῖος, romanized: Matthaîos; Aramaic: ܡܬܝ, romanized: Mattāy) is named in the New Testament as one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. According to Christian traditions, he was also one of the four Evangelists as author of the Gospel of Matthew , and thus is also known as Matthew ...