St. Bartholomew, aka Nathaniel, Apostle and Martyr. The apostle Bartholomew was a native of Galilee. It fell to his lot to preach the Gospel in hither India; and he announced to those nations the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of St. Matthew. But after converting many souls to Jesus Christ in that province and undergoing much labour and suffering, he went into eastern Armenia. Here he converted to the Christian Faith the king Polymius and his queen and twelve cities. This caused the pagan priests of that nation to be exceedingly jealous of him, and they stirred up Astyages the brother of king Polymius against the apostle, so that he commanded him to be flayed alive and finally beheaded. In this cruel martyrdom he gave up his soul to God. His body was buried at Albanapolis, the town of eastern Armenia where he was martyred; but it was afterwards taken to the island of Lispari, and thence to Beneventum. Finally it was translated to Rome by the emperor Otho III and placed on the island of the Tiber in a church dedicated to God under his invocation. His feast is kept at Rome on the eighth of the Kalends of September, and during the eight following days that basilica is much frequented by the faithful. catholictradition.org/Saints/saints8-17.htm catholicharboroffaithandmorals/St.%20Bartholomew.html salvemariaregina.info/SalveMariaRegina/SMR-173/Bartholomew.htm allthesaintsandpeterandpaul/st-bartholomew.html sacred-texts/chr/lots/lots266.htm magnificat.ca/cal/en/saints/saint_bartholomew.html traditionalcatholic.net/Tradition/Calendar/08-24.html gardenofmary/august-24-st-bartholomew-apostle/
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