Bartholomew the Apostle
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| Saint Bartholomew | |
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 Saint Bartholomew by Jusepe de Ribera | |
| Apostle and Martyr | |
| Born | Born:: Judea |
| Died | Died::71 AD, Caucasian Albania |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholicism Eastern Orthodoxy Oriental Orthodoxy Anglicanism Lutheranism |
| Canonized | Pre-congregation |
| Major shrine | Saint Bartholomew Monastery in Armenia, Relics at Saint Bartholomew-on-the-Tiber Church, Rome, the Canterbury Cathedral, cathedral in Frankfurt, and the San Bartolomeo Cathedral in Lipari |
| Feast | August 24 (Roman Catholicism) June 11 (Eastern Orthodoxy) |
| Attributes | Knife, His flayed skin |
| Patronage | Armenia; bookbinders; butchers; Florentine cheese and salt merchants; leather workers; neurological diseases; plasterers; shoemakers; tanners; trappers; twitching; whiteners |
Bartholomew (Greek: Βαρθολομαῖος, Bartholomaios; Aramaic: תולמי בר, Bar-Tōlmay; "Name means::Son of Tholmai") was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus.
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