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Evangelist portrait of Saint Matthew Folio 162 recto, the start of the Gospel of John Folio 24 verso, showing the names of Otto the Great and his mother Matilda The Athelstan Gospels , or British Library , Cotton MS Tiberius A. ii is a late 9th or early 10th-century Ottonian illuminated Gospel book which entered England as a gift to King ...
The works evoke three major stages in the life of the apostle Saint Matthew: his calling by Jesus Christ (The Calling of St Matthew), his writing of the Gospel guided by an angel (The Inspiration of Saint Matthew), and his martyrdom (The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew). They are still preserved in the Church of St. Louis of the French.
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]
Saint Matthew is named in the New Testament as one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. Saint Matthew may also refer to: Saint Matthew (Michelangelo), marble sculpture of Matthew the Apostle by Michelangelo; Saint Matthew (Ghiberti), bronze statue of Saint Matthew by Lorenzo Ghiberti; Saint Matthew, Hutt's Gate, church on the island of Saint Helena
Saint Matthew is a 2.7-m high bronze statue of Saint Matthew by Lorenzo Ghiberti, completed in 1420 for the Arte del Cambio. One of a cycle of fourteen patron saints of the Florentine guilds commissioned for the external niches of Orsanmichele , it is now in the Museo di Orsanmichele .
The St Matthew Passion can be divided in scenes or "stations" that follow the dramatic action of the Gospel account in different locations. [3] Whatever the chosen scene division (none of them indicated by the composer in the score), scenes end on an aria, a chorus, or in the midst of a Gospel text section.
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 Inspiration of Saint Matthew (1602) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Commissioned by the French Cardinal Matteo Contarelli, the canvas hangs in Contarelli chapel altar in the church of the French congregation San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, Italy .