Biography of saint matthias the apostle
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He must have followed Jesus before anyone knew him, stayed with him when he made enemies, and believed in him when he spoke of the cross and of eating his body -- teachings that had made others melt away.
Two men fit this description -- Matthias and Joseph called Barsabbas. The Latin Church celebrates the feast of St.
Matthias on 24 February and the Greek Church on 9 August. This Gospel is probably the document whence Clement of Alexandria quoted several passages, saying that they were borrowed from the traditions of Matthias, Paradoseis, the testimony of which he claimed to have been invoked by the heretics Valentinus, Marcion, and Basilides (Strom., VII, 17).
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Matthias who was Bishop of Jerusalem about the year 120, and whose history would seem to have been confounded with that of the Apostle. Jacquier
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It is said that St. Helena brought the relics of St. Matthias to Rome, and that a portion of them was at Trier. des six premiers siècles", I, 406-7). The Acts of the Apostles state that he was also one of the 72 disciples that the Lord Jesus sent out to preach the good news. In The Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10066a.htm
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[Note: After this article was written, the Latin Church moved the feast of St. Matthias to 14 May.]
Clement of Alexandria (Stromata III.4) records a sentence that the Nicolaitans ascribe to Matthias: "we must combat our flesh, set no value upon it, and concede to it nothing that can flatter it, but rather increase the growth of our soul by faith and knowledge".
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Why was this important? eccl., III, 25), who attributes it to heretics; by St. Jerome (Praef. in Matth.), and in the Decree of Gelasius (VI, 8) which declares it apocryphal. Or have you ever resented someone new who was added to your group? If the new Israel was to come from the disciples of Jesus, a twelfth apostle was needed.
But Jesus had chosen the original twelve.
These three writings: the gospel, the Traditions, and the Apocryphal Discourses were identified by Zahn (Gesch. It is at the end of the list of the Codex Barrocciamus (206). Matthias."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. They cast lots in order to discover God's will and Matthias was chosen. des N. T. Kanon, II, 751), but Harnack (Chron.