 St. John Chrysostom, priest of Antioch, became Patriarch of Constantinople in 398.He left homilies on most of the books of the Old and the New Testament.When St. Thomas Aquinas was asked by one of his brethren whether he would not like to be the owner of Paris, so that he could dispose of it to the King of France and with the proceeds promote the good works of his order, he answered that he would prefer to be the possessor of Chrysostom's "Super Matthæum".