Church–Missouri Synod and the Lutheran Church–Canada, his feast remains on 24 February. In Evangelical Lutheran Worship, used by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America as well as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, the feast date for Matthias is on 14 May. It is claimed that St Matthias the Apostle's remains were brought to Italy through Empress Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine I (the Great); part of these relics would be interred in the Abbey of Santa Giustina, Padua, and the remaining in the Abbey of St. Matthias, Trier, Germany. According to Greek sources, the remains of the apostle are buried in the castle of Gonio-Apsaros, Georgia. Notes See also Acta Andreae et Matthiae apud Anthropophagos Further reading References Citations External links 1st-century births 80 deaths Saints from the Holy Land 1st-century Christian saints 1st-century Christian martyrs People in Acts of the Apostles Christian saints from the New Testament Burials at St. Matthias' Abbey Seventy disciples Twelve Apostles Anglican saints