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St. Matthew, son of Alphaeus and a native of Galilee, was employed as a publican, or tax-collector, for the Romans. As he sat one day in the customhouse by the lake at Capharnaum, Jesus passed by.

St. Medard was born at Salency, France, about 45. His father, Nectard, was a French nobleman, whilst mother, Protogia, was a lady of extraordinary piety ascended from an ancient Roman family which had settled Coil Protocia converted her husband from paganism and instilled into St. Medard a tender compassion for the poor.

St. Clement of Alexandria assures us that St. Matthias was one of the seventy-two disciples of Jesus. This is also confirmed by Eusebius and St. Jerome.

In 436 a daughter was born to an Irish lord, named Duptace, at Fochard in Ulster, and called Bridget in baptism. From her infancy Bridget showed signs of the sanctity to which God’s grace was leading her.

All four of the Evangelists mention Saint Mary Magdalen, who at one time was “possessed by seven devils”. St. Luke the Apostle tells us that she was at one time a sinner.

St. Clement was a Roman by birth, and we learn from his Epistle to the Corinthians that he was of Jewish descent.

Saint Christina the Astonishing suffered many torments and a cruel death for the Faith in the persecution of Diocletian at Tyro, a city which stood formerly on an island in Lake Bolsena in Italy, but which long ago disappeared under the waters of the lake.

St. Zachary was born at San Severino, in Calabria, of a Greek family, and succeeded Pope Gregory III to the Chair of Peter on December 5, 741.