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SUMMARY:Sunday 21st September\, 11.30am\, Eucharist for St Matthew's Day
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DESCRIPTION:At today's eucharist we are remembering St Matthew\, who is re
 garded as one of the twelve apostles and author of the gospel bearing his 
 name. He is mentioned in Matthew chpts 9\, 10 as a tax collector who conve
 rted to follow Jesus\, but other gospels relating similar passages describ
 e Jesus's calling of a tax collector called Levi\, the son of Alphaeus\, a
 nd do not explicitly associate him with the name Matthew.\n\nAccording to 
 early church writer\, Clement of Alexandria\, after the ascension of Chris
 t\, Matthew preached the gospel to the Jewish community in Judea\, before 
 taking it abroad. Church tradition has it that he visited Ethiopia\, where
  he converted Ephigenia\, the virgin daughter of King Egippus\, to Christi
 anity and admitted her as a nun. When Hirtacus succeeded Egippus as king\,
  he asked Matthew if he would persuade Ephigenia to marry him. Matthew inv
 ited him a service the following Sunday\, but then rebuked him for lusting
  after the girl\, as she was now a nun and therefore a bride of Christ. Th
 e king was so enraged that he ordered his bodyguard to kill Matthew as he 
 stood at the altar\, making him a martyr. His tomb is located in the crypt
  of Salerno Cathedral in southern Italy.\n\nMost modern scholars now belie
 ve that the Gospel of Matthew was written anonymously\, and not by Matthew
 . While there are indications that the gospel’s stories of Jesus were ga
 thered in Hebrew and later translated into Greek\, it is generally thought
  that much of the content drew upon the first gospel to be written\, that 
 of St Mark\, though supplemented with some of the author`s material from o
 ther sources.\n\nBecause of the likely connection with tax collecting\, St
  Matthew is the patron saint of accountants\, bankers\, bookkeepers\, secu
 rity guards\, and stockbrokers.\n\nPicture above: part of a painting of St
  Matthew by Peter Paul Rubens - http://www.artbible.info/art/topics/rubens
 -apostles-series\, Public Domain\, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.p
 hp?curid=32560018
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LOCATION:St George's Church\, Málaga
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