St. Matthew - Lisbon, Portugal
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N 38° 42.601 W 009° 08.044
29S E 488343 N 4284606
This sculpture is located inside St. Antonio Church in Lisbon.
Waymark Code: WMQDTX
Location: Lisboa, Portugal
Date Posted: 02/12/2016
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This small metallic sculpture depicts the saint with a halo, standing...looking to the sky and holding a large book. A cherub is at his feet.
There is no sign about the artist or date, but a placard explains is often depicted as an angel or winged man...but that is not the case here.
Wikipedia (
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"Matthew the Apostle ...also known as Saint Matthew and as Levi) was, according to the Bible, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus and, according to Christian tradition, one of the four Evangelists.
In the Bible
Among the early followers and apostles of Jesus, Matthew is mentioned in Matthew 9:9 and Matthew 10:3 as a publican who, while sitting at the "receipt of custom" in Capernaum, was called to follow Jesus. Matthew may have collected taxes from the Hebrew people for Herod Antipas. Matthew is also listed among the twelve, but without identification of his background, in Mark 3:18, Luke 6:15 and Acts 1:13. In passages parallel to Matthew 9:9, both Mark 2:14 and Luke 5:27 describe Jesus' calling of the tax collector Levi, the son of Alphaeus, but Mark and Luke never explicitly equate this Levi with the Matthew named as one of the twelve.
Early life
Matthew was a 1st-century Galilean (presumably born in Galilee, which was not part of Judea or the Roman Iudaea province), the son of Alpheus. As a tax collector he would have been literate in Aramaic and Greek. After his call, Matthew invited Jesus home for a feast. On seeing this, the Scribes and the Pharisees criticized Jesus for eating with tax collectors and sinners. This prompted Jesus to answer, "I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." (Mark 2:17, Luke 5:32)