Tour Scotland Easter Sunday travel video, with Scottish music, of stained glass windows in St Matthew's Church on visit to Tay Street in Perth, Perthshire. Windows include: the God Has Spoken stained glass window; Martyrs of Perth stained glass window, the Perth Martyrs were six people executed in Perth in 1543 for their Protestant beliefs. The condemned people were William Anderson, Robert Lamb, James Finlayson, James Hunter, James Raveleson and Helen Stark. They were sentenced to death for their beliefs, after being convicted by the Archbishop of St Andrews. Anderson, Lamb, Finlayson and Hunter were sentenced to be hanged, Raveleson was to be burnt; and Helen Stark, " with her sucking infant ", was to be put into a sack and drowned; War Memorial stained glass window by Alexander Gilfillan 1953, was previously in the demolished Wilson United Presbyterian Church. Names include Duncan Cameron Findlay a Sergeant in the Royal Air Force who died aged 25 on 26/03/1940, he was the son of William Nevay Porter and Annie Cameron Findlay, of Perth.
Born in Palestine sometime in the 1st century, Saint Matthew was one of Jesus's 12 apostles and also one of the four Evangelists, according to the Bible. Matthew authored the first Gospel of the Bible's New Testament, now known as the Gospel of Matthew. Prior to preaching the word of God, he worked as a tax collector in Capernaum. Matthew is the patron saint of tax collectors and accountants. The Feast of St. Matthew is annually celebrated on September 21.
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