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BARTHOLOMEW, SAINT

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BARTHOLOMEW, See also:SAINT , one of the twelve apostles, regarding whose See also:early See also:life we know nothing, unless in accordance with a widely-spread belief he is to be identified with See also:Nathanael (q.v.). If so, Bartholomew is probably a patronymic, the apostle's full name being Nathanael Bartolmai, i.e. the son of Tolmai. On the other See also:hand, according to a Syrian tradition, Bartholomew's See also:original name was Jesus, which he dropped owing to its being the name of the See also:Master Himself. In the synoptic gospels Bartholomew is never mentioned except in the lists of the apostles, where his name always appears after See also:Philip's. He is said to have gone, after the See also:ascension of the See also:Lord, on a missionary tour to See also:India (then a very wide See also:geographical designation) where, according to a See also:story in See also:Eusebius (H. E. v. 1o), he See also:left behind him a copy of St See also:Matthew's See also:gospel. According to the traditional See also:account he was flayed alive and then crucified with his See also:head downwards, at Albanopolis in See also:Armenia, or, according to Nicephorus, at Urbanopolis in See also:Cilicia. In See also:works of See also:art he is generally represented with a large See also:knife, the See also:instrument of his martyrdom, .or, as in See also:Michelangelo's " Last See also:Judgment," with his own skin See also:hanging over his See also:arm. The festival of St Bartholomew is celebrated on the 24th of See also:August. Ii Dr Nestle has See also:drawn See also:attention to the fact that in the See also:Syriac See also:translation of Eusebius' See also:history the name Tolmai, i.e. Bartholomew, takes the See also:place of See also:Matthias, the apostle who was appointed in place of Judas (i.

12, cf. ii. 1, iii. 25 and 29). If this See also:

identification can be made out there would, in the See also:list of apostles as finally constituted, be two men who See also:bore the patronymic Bartholomew. See further Expository Times, ix. pp. 566 if. (1898).

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