St. Matthew the Apostle (JMAS 08) Rack Card

Customize the front for your church, school, or organization and add your text to the blank back of this versatile hand-out. + Prefer a different background color? See the suggested coordinating hues on the Color Palette postcard for this image. Color Palette postcards are found in an image's associated COLLECTION and in the Special COLLECTION devoted just to color palettes. + Image Credit (JMAS 08): Antique image of St. Matthew the Apostle from a late 19th century devotional print in chromolithography with gilt accents originally published by Josef Müller, Art Publisher, Munich, Germany, from the designer’s private collection of religious ephemera. The image is one of twelve in the publisher’s Apostle Series (No. 12155). + The bag of coins on the lower right of the wreath surrounding St. Matthew’s portrait alludes to his former profession as tax collector which he abandoned to heed Jesus’s call to become an Apostle. Both cornucopia and brown rabbits are symbols of abundance and good fortune, especially in money matters. + St. Matthew is patron of all facets of money management. + Feast: September 21 + The lush floral ornamentation derives from miniatures, that is, the small illustrations used to decorate ancient or medieval illuminated manuscripts, in the Vatican Library.