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The Great Cloud of Witnesses

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St. Zacchaeus of Palestine

Zacchaeus was a chief tax-collector at Jericho, mentioned only in the Gospel of Luke. A descendant of Abraham, he was an example of Jesus's personal, earthly mission to bring salvation to the lost. Tax collectors were despised as traitors (working for the Roman Empire, not for their Jewish community), and as being corrupt. Because the lucrative production and export of balsam was centered...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 149
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