Tax-gatherer
41Asia Minor — • The peninsular mass that the Asiatic continent projects westward of an imaginary line running from the Gulf of Alexandretta (Issus) on the Mediterranean to the vicinity of Trebizond (Trapezus) on the Black Sea Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin… …
42Prehistoric numerals — Counting in prehistory was first assisted by using body parts, most notably the fingers. This is reflected in the etymology of certain number names, notably in the names of ten and hundred in the Proto Indo European numerals, both… …
43Osulf II of Bamburgh — Osulf (also Oswulf) was the son of Eadulf III, Earl of Bamburgh (killed 1041), and grandson of Uchtred the Bold, Earl of Northumbria (killed 1016). Osulf’s family ruled as High Reeves or ealdormen of Bamburgh from 954 until 1041, when Siward the… …
44Matthew — Gift of God, a common Jewish name after the Exile. He was the son of Alphaeus, and was a publican or tax gatherer at Capernaum. On one occasion Jesus, coming up from the side of the lake, passed the custom house where Matthew was seated, and… …
45Matthew, Gospel according to — The author of this book was beyond a doubt the Matthew, an apostle of our Lord, whose name it bears. He wrote the Gospel of Christ according to his own plans and aims, and from his own point of view, as did also the other evangelists. As to …
46Gafolgerefa — A tax gatherer. Cf. Gafol …
47Limitour — A *friar who had exclusive begging rights within a specified area; sometimes known derisively as procurators, a reference to the king s *pur veyors or procurers, who were also very unpopular. (The procurator was also a Roman tax gatherer.) Their… …
48TYLER, WAT — a tiler in Dartford, Kent, who roused into rebellion the long discontented and over taxed peasantry of England by striking dead in 1381 a tax gatherer who had offered insult to his young daughter; under Tyler and Jack Straw a peasant army was… …
49Matthew, Feast of Saint — Observed September 21. A Feast in honor of St. Matthew has been observed since A.D. 703, and he is known in the Church as both Apostle and Evangelist. St. Matthew had been a Publican or tax gatherer, and while in his office at Capernaum,… …
50gafolgeréfa — m ( n/ n) tax gatherer, publican …
