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Saint Matthew writing - English
URL: http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/texte/manuscrit/aman11/i8_0071.htm

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Breviary of Martin of Aragon Spain, Catalonia 15th Century. (60 x 60 mm).

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CIN - ST. MATTHEW, APOSTLE and EVANGELIST - English
URL: http://www.cin.org/stmatth.html

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Catholic Information Network (CIN). First Century Few people love the tax-collector. Even in these days when the relation between taxer and taxed is, no doubt, scrupulously correct, his name strikes cold. Much more was this so in the Palestine of the first century, when it was in his interests to bully and harry and falsify.

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Catholic Online - Saints - St. Matthew - English
URL: http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=84

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St. Matthew, one of the twelve Apostles, is the author of the first Gospel. This has been the constant tradition of the Church and is confirmed by the Gospel itself. He was the son of Alpheus and was called to be an Apostle while sitting in the tax collectors place at Capernaum. Before his conversion he was a publican, i.e., a tax collector by profession. He is to be identified with the "Levi" of Mark and Luke.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Matthew - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10056b.htm

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Apostle and evangelist. The name Matthew is derived from the Hebrew Mattija, being shortened to Mattai in post-Biblical Hebrew. In Greek it is sometimes spelled Maththaios, B D, and sometimes Matthaios, CEKL, but grammarians do not agree as to which of the two spellings is the original. Matthew is spoken of five times in the New Testament.

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Patron Saints Index: Saint Matthew the Apostle - English
URL: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintm13.htm

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Also known as Levi; Apostle of Ethiopia Memorial 21 September Profile Son of Alphaeus, he lived at Capenaum on Lake Genesareth. He was a Roman tax collector, a position equated with collaboration with the enemy by those from whom he collected taxes. Jesus' contemporaries were surprised to see the Christ with a traitor, but Jesus explained that he had come "not to call the just, but sinners."

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Biography: Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist (21 Sep NT) - English
URL: http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/09/21.html

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One day Jesus was walking and saw a tax collector named Matthew sitting at a tax collection post, and said to him, "Follow me." And Matthew stood up and followed Him, and became one of His twelve apostles. (See M 9:9-13 = P 2:13-17 = L 5:27-32) Tax collectors in those days were social outcasts. Devout Jews avoided them because they were usually dishonest (the job carried no salary, and they were expected to make their profits by cheating the people from whom they collected taxes).

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