Saint Bartholomew the Apostle
![[painting of Saint Bartholomew]](http://saints.sqpn.com/stb11003.jpg "20kb jpg detail from 'The Apostle Saint Bartholomew' by Matteo di Giovanni, c.1480, tempera on wood, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest")
Also known as
- Bartolomé
- Nathanael bar Tolomai
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One of the Twelves Apostles. Probably a close friend of Saint Philip; Bartholomew’s name is always mentioned in the Gospels in connection with Philip, and it was Philip who brought Bartholomew to Jesus. May have written a gospel, now lost; it is mentioned in other writings of the time. May have preached in Asia Minor, Ethiopia, India and Armenia; some one did, leaving behind assorted writings, and local tradition says it was Bartholomew. Martyr.
Born
- Galilee
- flayed alive at Albanopolis, Armenia
- relics at Saint Bartholomew-on-the-Tiber Church, Rome, Italy, and in the cathedral in Canterbury, England
- against nervous diseases
- against neurological diseases
- against twitching
- bookbinders
- butchers
- cobblers
- Florentine cheese merchants
- Florentine salt merchants
- leather workers
- plasterers
- shoemakers
- tanners
- trappers
- whiteners
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- Armenia
- Borgo Tossignano, Italy
- Boves, Italy
- Carpineto dell Nora, Italy
- Civitella in Val di Chiana, Italy
- Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Gambatesa, Italy
- Gharghur, Malta
- Lipari, Sicily, Italy
- Maastricht, Netherlands
- Magalang, Philippines
- Plzen, Czech Republic
- Potosí, Bolivia
- Salzano, Italy
- cross
- elderly man holding a tanner‘s knife and a human skin
- tanner‘s knife
- bright red (skinless) man holding his own skin
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Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Catholic Encyclopedia, by John F Fenlon
- Christian Biographies, by James Kiefer
- Ecole Glossary, by Karen Rae Keck
- For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
- Goffine’s Devout Instructions
- Google Directory
- Martyrdom of Bartholomew
- New Catholic Dictionary
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
- Pictorial Lives of the Saints
MLA Citation
- “Saint Bartholomew the Apostle”. Saints.SQPN.com. 26 September 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-bartholomew-the-apostle/>
