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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]
The four winged creatures symbolize, top to bottom, left to right: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Matthew the Evangelist, the author of the first gospel account, is symbolized by a winged man, or angel. Matthew's gospel starts with Joseph's genealogy from Abraham; it represents Jesus's incarnation, and so Christ's human nature. This signifies ...
24 Saint Timothy, pastor (Lesser Festival) W - LCMS Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe; 25 Conversion of Paul the Apostle (W) Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Ends - ELCA; 26 Timothy, Titus, and Silas, missionaries (Commemoration) W – ELCA Saint Titus, pastor (Lesser Festival) W - LCMS; 27 John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, 407 (W) – LCMS
The Calling of St. Matthew, by Vittore Carpaccio, 1502. Calling of St. Matthew by Alexandre Bida, 1875.. The Calling of Matthew is an episode in the life of Jesus which appears in all three synoptic gospels, Matthew 9:9–13, Mark 2:13–17 and Luke 5:27–28, and relates the initial encounter between Jesus and Matthew, the tax collector who became a disciple.
21 September: Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist – feast; 23 September: Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest – memorial; 26 September: Saints Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs – optional memorial; 27 September: Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest – memorial; 28 September: Saint Wenceslaus, Martyr – optional memorial
Holy Apostle and Evangelist Matthew. The Martyrdom of St. Matthew, with St. Iphigenia of Ethiopia on the right. (Altarpiece of St. Matthew, c.1367-70).
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 ...
21 Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist; 22 Philander Chase, Bishop of Ohio, and of Illinois, 1852; 23 Thecla of Iconium, Proto-Martyr among Women, c.70; 24 Anna Ellison Butler Alexander, Deaconess and Teacher, 1947; 25 Sergius of Radonezh, Monastic, 1392; 26 Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop, 1626; 27 Euphrosyne/Smaragdus of Alexandria, Monastic, 5th ...