This is a antique copper theca with silver front, inside a fc relic of Saint Matthew the Apostle.  Relic in place, and wax seal and threads intact. Seal has some damage but keeps the threads together,sealed with the seal of Petrus Lambertus Goossens who was Archbishop of Mechelen. Comes from a convent in Belgium. Diameter 1,4 inch.Shipping and handling US$ 37.00 by insured priority mail and tracking number. All my items are securely packet, to avoid all possible damage ( look at my feedback).

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              As per Ebay policy,this reliquary does not contain human remains but only objects of devotion. The auction is for the theca, the relic is a gift.

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Saint Matthew the Apostle

Also known as

• Levi
• Apostle of Ethiopia
• Matthew the Evangelist

Memorial

• 21 September (Western calendar)
• 16 November (Eastern calendar)
• 6 May (translation of his relics)

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.”

Matthew’s Gospel is given pride of place in the canon of the New Testament, and was written to convince Jewish readers that their anticipated Messiah had come in the person of Jesus. He preached among the Jews for 15 years; his audiences may have included the Jewish enclave in Ethiopia, and places in the East.

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• accountants (traditional, and proclaimed for those in Italy on 6 August 1954 by Pope Pius XII)
• bankers
• bookkeepers
• currency exchanges
• customs officers
• financial officers (traditional, and proclaimed on 10 April 1934 by Pope Pius XXII)
• guards
• money changers
• money managers
• security forces
• security guards
• stock brokers
• tax collectors (traditional, and proclaimed for Italian tax collectors on 27 November 1964 by Pope Paul VI)
• Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers
• Trier, Germany, diocese of
• Washington, DC, archdiocese of
• in Italy
• Albanella
• Asiago
• Cannara
• Casalina, Pontremoli
• Covigliaio
• Fabrica di Roma
• Ortignano Raggiolo
• Salerno
• San Marco in Lamis
• Trepunti
• Villa d’Ogna
• San Mateo, Ibiza, Spain

 

Petrus Lambertus Goossens (18 July 1827 – 25 January 1906) was a Belgian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.Petrus Lambertus Goossens was born into a well-to-do farming family in Perk. His father, Lambert Goossens, was mayor for thirty years.On December 21, 1850, Goossens was ordained a priest. He was appointed vicar general in 1878 by the then Archbishop Victor Augustus Dechamps. On June 1, 1883, he was appointed coadjutor bishop of Namur; His episcopal consecration took place on June 24, 1883. When Théodore-Joseph Gravez died on 16 July 1883, Goossens succeeded him as bishop of Namur. On 24 March  he was appointed Archbishop of Mechelen.Goossens was created cardinal at the consistory of 24 May 1889. He was given the rank of cardinal-priest. His titular church became the Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. He participated in the conclave of 1903, which led to the election of Pope Pius X.