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Saint Bartholomew the Apostle
Saint Bartholomew, Apostle
Saint Bartholomew, Apostle
Ecclesial status Saint
Titles Apostle; Martyr
Common identification Nathanael of Cana
Traditional missions India or Arabia, Mesopotamia, Persia, and Armenia
Traditional martyrdom Albanopolis in Armenia
Commemoration Feast, 24 August

Bartholomew the Apostle was one of the Twelve and a martyr of the apostolic mission. Catholic tradition commonly identifies him with Nathanael of Cana, whom Jesus called a true Israelite without duplicity and promised a vision of heaven opened over the Son of Man.

Devotional status: Approved devotion

Overview

Bartholomew[1] was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Most scholars today identify Bartholomew as Nathanael,[2] who appears in the Gospel of John (1:45–51; cf. 21:2).[3]

One of the Twelve

Bartholomew appears in the apostolic lists of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Acts. His name, Bar-Tolmai, has the form of a patronymic meaning son of Tolmai and may therefore have accompanied a personal name. In the lists he is placed beside Philip, a detail that supports but does not by itself prove the traditional identification with Nathanael. The New Testament records no separate call narrative under the name Bartholomew, yet his presence among the Twelve establishes his role as an authorized witness of Christ's ministry and Resurrection.

The Twelve signify the restoration of Israel and receive from Jesus authority to preach, heal, expel demons, baptize, and teach. Bartholomew's apostolic dignity therefore does not depend on the number of episodes in which he is individually named. Like the other apostles, he is chosen by Christ, formed within the common life of the disciples, scandalized and restored through the Passion, and sent by the risen Lord. The Church's faith rests on the apostolic college as a whole, not on celebrity among its members.[4][5]

Bartholomew and Nathanael

John never lists a Bartholomew but gives Nathanael a prominent call through Philip and later names him among the disciples beside the Sea of Tiberias. The Synoptics list Bartholomew beside Philip but never name Nathanael. These complementary patterns led Latin and many other Christian traditions to identify the two. The identification is ancient and liturgically fruitful, although it has not been defined as a dogma and should not be presented as though Scripture explicitly equated the names.[6]

Nathanael encounters Christ

Philip tells Nathanael that he has found the one of whom Moses and the prophets wrote: Jesus, son of Joseph, from Nazareth. Nathanael answers with skepticism—Can anything good come from Nazareth?—and Philip replies, Come and see. The exchange models evangelization that neither conceals an objection nor turns it into endless debate. Philip brings his friend to Jesus, allowing encounter with the Lord to disclose what a geographical prejudice could not perceive.

Jesus greets Nathanael as a true Israelite in whom there is no duplicity. When Nathanael asks how Jesus knows him, the Lord says he saw him under the fig tree before Philip called. Whatever private circumstance the image recalled, Nathanael recognizes supernatural knowledge and confesses, Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel. Jesus then promises something greater: heaven opened and the angels ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.[7]

The true ladder between heaven and earth

Christ's promise evokes Jacob's ladder while placing the Son of Man himself at the center. Jesus is the living communion between God and humanity, the true Temple in whom heaven opens. Nathanael's confession is genuine but must grow from astonishment at a sign into faith in the Paschal mystery. Catholic tradition sees in the passage the path of apostolic knowledge: Israel's Scriptures, a friend's testimony, personal encounter, confession of Christ, and promise of a glory that exceeds the disciple's first understanding.

Mission and martyrdom

Early writers connect Bartholomew with distant mission fields. Eusebius reports that Pantaenus found in India a Hebrew Gospel of Matthew said to have been left by Bartholomew. Other traditions place the Apostle in Mesopotamia, Persia, Arabia, Ethiopia, and Armenia. Ancient geographical terms are not always identical with modern borders, and the surviving evidence cannot produce a certain continuous itinerary. It does show a widespread memory of Bartholomew as a missionary who carried the Gospel beyond the Roman Mediterranean heartland.

The strongest later tradition locates his martyrdom at Albanopolis in Armenia. Accounts describe beheading, flaying, crucifixion, or combinations of these torments. Western iconography adopted the flaying tradition and depicts Bartholomew holding a knife or his own skin, as in Michelangelo's Last Judgment. Historical restraint concerns the exact manner, not the Church's received veneration of him as an apostolic martyr who sealed his confession of Christ by death.[8]

Armenian memory

The Armenian Apostolic Church venerates Bartholomew with Thaddeus as an illuminator and apostolic founder of Christianity in Armenia. Catholics honor this ancient memory while distinguishing apostolic origins from the later national conversion associated with Saint Gregory the Illuminator. Bartholomew's place in Armenian tradition gives his cult continuing ecumenical importance and recalls that Christianity took root east of the Roman Empire through missions whose documentary traces are often fragmentary.

Relics, feast, and patronage

Traditions of translation place Bartholomew's relics first on Lipari, then at Benevento, with a major portion honored in the Roman church of San Bartolomeo all'Isola. Other churches possess relics under longstanding claims. Such histories require attention to provenance and do not make the Apostle divisible as a devotional commodity. The cult of relics honors God's work in a saint's embodied life and directs the faithful toward the resurrection of the body.

The Roman Rite celebrates Saint Bartholomew, Apostle, on 24 August as a Feast with red vestments. The Gospel of the call of Nathanael gives liturgical expression to the traditional identification. Bartholomew is named in the Roman Martyrology and honored as patron of Armenia, tanners, leatherworkers, bookbinders, and several cities. His knife in art refers to martyrdom; it is not the measure of his sanctity, which lies in fidelity to Christ.[9]

Without duplicity

Bartholomew's spiritual portrait is concentrated in Christ's praise of the true Israelite without duplicity. Apostolic candor is not bluntness detached from charity. It is an undivided readiness to let Christ expose prejudice, receive truth, and bear witness without deceit. The Church venerates Bartholomew as living in Christ and invokes his intercession for missionaries, persecuted Christians, Armenia, and all who seek the honesty required for genuine faith.

New Testament references

The name Bartholomew (Greek: Βαρθολομαῖος, transliterated "Bartholomaios") comes from the Imperial Aramaic: בר-תולמי bar-Tolmay "son of Tolmai"[10] or "son of the furrows".[10] Bartholomew is listed in the New Testament among the Twelve Apostles of Jesus in the three Synoptic Gospels: Matthew,[11] Mark,[12] and Luke,[13] and in Acts of the Apostles.[14]

Tradition

Eusebius of Caesarea's Ecclesiastical History (5:10) states that after the Ascension, Bartholomew went on a missionary tour to India, where he left behind a copy of the Gospel of Matthew. Tradition narrates that he served as a missionary in Mesopotamia and Parthia, as well as Lycaonia and Ethiopia in other accounts.[15] Popular traditions say that Bartholomew preached the Gospel in India and then went to Greater Armenia.[10]

Mission to India

Two ancient testimonies exist about the mission of Saint Bartholomew in India. These are by Eusebius of Caesarea (early 4th century) and by Saint Jerome (late 4th century). Both of these refer to this tradition while speaking of the reported visit of Saint Pantaenus to India in the 2nd century.[16] The studies of Fr A.C. Perumalil SJ and Moraes hold that the Bombay region on the Konkan coast, a region which may also have been known as the ancient city Kalyan, was the field of Saint Bartholomew's missionary activities. Previously the consensus among scholars was at least skeptical about an apostolate of Saint Bartholomew in India. Stallings (1703), Neander (1853), Hunter (1886), Rae (1892), and Zaleski (1915) supported it, while scholars such as Sollerius (1669), Carpentier (1822), Harnack (1903), Medlycott (1905), Mingana (1926), Thurston (1933), Attwater (1935), etc. do not. The main argument is that the India that Eusebius and Jerome refer to should be identified as Ethiopia or Arabia Felix.[16]

In Armenia

Along with his fellow apostle Jude "Thaddeus", Bartholomew is reputed to have brought and preached Christianity to Armenia in the 1st century; as a result, in 301 the Armenian kingdom became the first state in history to embrace Christianity officially. Thus, both saints are considered the patron saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church. According to these traditions, Bartholomew is the second Catholicos-Patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church.[17]

Christian tradition offers three accounts of Bartholomew's death: "One speaks of his being kidnapped, beaten unconscious, and cast into the sea to drown."

In the Hellenic tradition, Bartholomew was executed in Albanopolis in Armenia, where he was martyred for having converted Polymius, the local king, to Christianity. Enraged by the monarch's conversion, and fearing a Roman backlash, King Polymius's brother, Prince Astyages, ordered Bartholomew's torture and execution. However, this version of the story appears ahistorical, as there are no records of any Armenian king of the Arsacid dynasty of Armenia with the name "Polymius". Other accounts of his martyrdom name the king as either Agrippa (identified with Tigranes VI), or Sanatruk, king of Armenia.[18]

The 13th-century Saint Bartholomew Monastery was a prominent Armenian monastery constructed at the presumed site of Bartholomew's martyrdom in Vaspurakan, Greater Armenia (now in southeastern Turkey).[19]

In the Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich

According to the Visions of the Apostles, Martyrs and Saints recorded by Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774–1824), Saint Bartholomew first preached the Christian faith in India, where he made numerous converts and left behind several disciples.[20]

Emmerich's account relates that the apostle journeyed eastward, passing through Japan before returning west by way of Arabia and the Red Sea to Abyssinia (modern-day Ethiopia). There, he is said to have converted King Polymius, raised a man from the dead, and silenced a local idol that had previously spoken to the people. When Bartholomew commanded the demon inhabiting the idol to reveal its deceptions, the spirit confessed that the supposed healings attributed to the idol were illusions meant to maintain idol worship among the populace.

Following this event, the king and his household were baptized, and Bartholomew consecrated the former pagan temple to the worship of the true God. He then healed the sick and became widely loved by the people. However, priests of the old cult later accused him before Astyages, the king's brother, who ordered his arrest and torture. Emmerich describes Bartholomew's martyrdom by flaying, during which he continued to preach until his death. His followers are said to have recovered his body and buried it honorably, over which a church was later constructed.

The vision concludes with the conversion of Astyages, while the idol priests are depicted as dying miserably soon afterward. Emmerich also notes that some exegetes have erroneously identified Bartholomew with Nathanael; however, in her visions the two were distinct. Bartholomew (son of Tolmai, of the tribe of Naphtali) preached in India and Armenia, while Nathanael evangelized in Mauretania and Brittany, dying in Tréguier, Brittany. Furthermore, regarding the scene in which Jesus glanced at Nathanael under the fig tree in order to move him deeply, she noted that Jesus also gave Bartholomew a glance, which deeply touched him.[21]

Veneration

The Armenian Apostolic Church honours Saint Bartholomew and Saint Thaddeus as its patron saints.

The Eastern Orthodox Church venerates Bartholomew on June 11.[22] Bartholomew is also venerated on August 25 in commemoration of the transfer of Bartholomew's relics.[23] He is also venerated as one of the twelve apostles on June 30.[24]

In the Synaxarium of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Bartholomew's martyrdom is commemorated on the first day of the Coptic calendar (i.e., the first day of the month of Thout), which currently falls on 11 September (corresponding to 29 August in the Julian calendar).

In the current Roman General Calendar Saint Bartholomew's feast occurs on 24 August.[25]

Bartholomew the Apostle is remembered in the Church of England and all other Anglican churches with a Festival on 24 August.[26][27]

Relics

The 6th-century writer Theodorus Lector asserted that in about 507, the Byzantine emperor Anastasius I Dicorus gave the body of Bartholomew to the city of Daras, in Mesopotamia, which he had recently refounded.[28] The existence of relics at Lipari, a small island off the coast of Sicily, in the part of Italy controlled from Constantinople, was explained by Gregory of Tours[29] by his body having miraculously washed up there. A large piece of his skin and many bones that were kept in the Cathedral of St. Bartholomew in Lipari, were translated to Benevento in 838, where they are still kept in the Basilica San Bartolomeo. A portion of the relics was given in 983 by Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor, to Rome, where it is conserved at San Bartolomeo all'Isola, which was founded on the site of the temple of Asclepius, in pagan times an important Roman medical centre. This association with medicine caused Bartholomew's name to become associated in course of time with hospitals.[30]

Saint Bartholomew has been credited with several miracles.[31]

Art and literature

In artistic depictions, Bartholomew is most commonly depicted holding his flayed skin and the knife with which he was skinned.[32] Of this a well known example is featured in Michelangelo's Last Judgement.

Not rarely, Bartholomew is shown draping his own skin around his body.[33] Moreover, representations of Bartholomew with a chained demon are common in Spanish painting.[33]

St. Bartholomew is the most prominent flayed Christian martyr;[34] During the 16th century, images of the flaying of Bartholomew were popular and this detail came to become a virtual constant of iconography.[33][32] An echo of concentration on these details is found in medieval heraldry regarding Bartholomew, which depicts "flaying knives with silver blades and gold handles, on a red field."[35]

Saint Bartholomew is often depicted in lavish medieval manuscripts.[36] Bearing in mind that manuscripts are in fact made from flayed and manipulated skin, they hold a strong visual and cognitive association with the saint during the medieval period.[36]

Florentine artist Pacino di Bonaguida, depicts his martyrdom in a complex and striking composition in his Laudario of Sant'Agnese, a book of Italian Hymns produced for the Compagnia di Sant'Agnese c. 1340.[34] In the five-scene, narrative-based image, three torturers flay Bartholomew's legs and arms as he is immobilised and chained to a gate. On the right, the saint wears his own skin tied around his neck while he kneels in prayer before a rock, his severed head lying on the ground.

A further depiction is that of the Flaying of St. Bartholomew in the Luttrell Psalter c. 1325–1340. There, Bartholomew is depicted lying on a surgical table, surrounded by tormentors while he is flayed with golden knives.[37]

Due to the nature of his martyrdom, Bartholomew is the patron saint of tanners, plasterers, tailors, leatherworkers, bookbinders, farmers, housepainters, butchers, and glove makers.[38][33] In works of art the saint has been depicted being skinned by tanners, as in Guido da Siena's reliquary shutters with the Martyrdoms of St. Francis, St. Claire, St. Bartholomew, and St. Catherine of Alexandria.[39] Popular in Florence and other areas in Tuscany, the saint also came to be associated with salt, oil, and cheese merchants.[40]

The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew (1634) by Jusepe de Ribera depicts Bartholomew's final moments before being flayed alive. Transfixed by Bartholomew's active faith, the executioner seems to have stopped short in his actions, and his furrowed brow and partially illuminated face suggest a moment of doubt, with the possibility of conversion.[41] The cusping along all four edges shows that the painting has not been cut down: Ribera intended the composition to be just such a tight, restricted presentation, with the figures cut off and pressed together.[42]

Although Bartholomew's death is commonly depicted in artworks of a religious nature, his story has also been used to represent anatomical depictions of the human body devoid of flesh. An example of this can be seen in Marco d'Agrate's St Bartholomew Flayed (1562) where Bartholomew is depicted wrapped in his own skin with every muscle, vein and tendon clearly visible, acting as a clear description of the muscles and structure of the human body.[43]

This idea has influenced some contemporary artists to create an artwork depicting an anatomical study of a human body is found amongst with Gunther Von Hagens's The Skin Man (2002) and Damien Hirst's Exquisite Pain (2006). Within Gunther Von Hagens's body of work called Body Worlds a figure reminiscent of Bartholomew holds up his skin. This figure is depicted in actual human tissues (made possible by Hagens's plastination process) to educate the public about the inner workings of the human body and to show the effects of healthy and unhealthy lifestyles.[44] In Exquisite Pain 2006, Damien Hirst depicts St Bartholomew with a high level of anatomical detail with his flayed skin draped over his right arm, a scalpel in one hand and a pair of scissors in the other. The inclusion of scissors was inspired by Tim Burton's film Edward Scissorhands (1990).[45]

Bartholomew plays a part in Francis Bacon's Utopian tale New Atlantis, about a mythical isolated land, Bensalem, populated by a people dedicated to reason and natural philosophy. Some twenty years after the ascension of Christ the people of Bensalem find an ark floating off their shore. The ark contains a letter as well as the books of the Old and New Testaments. The letter is from Bartholomew the Apostle and declares that an angel told him to set the ark and its contents afloat. Thus the scientists of Bensalem receive the revelation of the Word of God.[46]

Culture

The festival in August has been a traditional occasion for markets and fairs, such as the Bartholomew Fair which was held in Smithfield, London, from the Middle Ages,[47] and which served as the scene for Ben Jonson's 1614 homonymous comedy.

St Bartholomew's Street Fair is held in Crewkerne, Somerset, annually at the start of September.[48] The fair dates back to Saxon times and the major traders' market was recorded in the Domesday Book. St Bartholomew's Street Fair, Crewkerne is reputed to have been granted its charter in the time of Henry III (1207–1272). The earliest surviving court record was made in 1280, which can be found in the British Library.

In Islam

The Qur'anic account of the disciples of Jesus does not include their names, numbers, or any detailed accounts of their lives. Muslim exegesis, however, more or less agrees with the New Testament list and holds that the disciples included Peter, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, Andrew, James, Jude, James the Less, John and Simon the Zealot.[49]

Quoting Ibn Ishaq, the Andalusian scholar al-Qurtubi gives the following details concerning the mission of the disciples of Jesus Christ: He sent Peter and Paul to the Roman lands; Andrew and Matthew to Cannibals; Thomas to Babylon; Philip to Africa; John to Damascus the town of the seven-sleeper; Jacob to Jerusalem; Ibn Talma (Bartholomew) to the Arab world; Simon to the Berbers; Yehuda and Bard to Alexandria. Allah aided them with points of right argument and they prevailed.[50]

See also

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