Saint Martha
![[Saint Martha]](stm05004.jpg "13kb jpg, 'Christ in the House of Mary and Martha', by Jan Vermeer, 1654-55, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh; please do not write to ask about the image")
- Also known as
- Wonder Worker of Southern Gaul
- Memorial
- 29 July
- Profile
- Sister of Saints Lazarus and Mary of Bethany.
Friend of Jesus, hostess to him in her house.
May have been part of an early mission to France.
- Died
- c.80
- Patronage
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butlers
cooks
dietitians
domestic servants
homemakers
hotel-keepers
housemaids
housewives
innkeepers
laundry workers
maids
manservants
servants
servers
single laywomen
travellers
- Representation
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broom
keys
ladle
- Images
- Gallery of images of Saint Martha
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- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Google Directory
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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- Readings
- Martha and Mary were sisters, related not only by blood but also by religious aspirations.
They stayed close to our Lord and both served him harmoniously when he was among them.
Martha welcomed him as travelers are welcomed.
But in her case, the maidservant received her Lord, the creature her Creator, to serve him bodily food while she was to be fed by the Spirit.
No one of you should say, "Blessed are they who have deserved to receive Christ into their homes!" Do not grieve or complain that you were born in a time when you can no longer see God in the flesh.
He did not in fact take this privilege from you.
As he says, "Whatever you have done to the least of my brothers, you did to me."
- from a sermon by Saint Augustine