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What are the symbols of Saint Matthias?

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Based on legend, artists have represented Matthias with an axe, occasionally a hatchet, or lance, or sword, as the instrument with which he was tortured. Matthias can be only too happy with these symbols, for they have made him the patron of butchers and builders.

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