Bartholomew the Apostle
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Bartholomew was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Most scholars today identify Bartholomew as Nathanael, who appears in the Gospel of John.
St Bartholomew by Rubens, c. 1611
Bartholomew the Apostle, detail of the mosaic in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, 6th century
Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew by Matthias Stom
Altar of San Bartolomeo Basilica in Benevento, Italy, containing the relics of Bartholomew
Christian martyr
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In Christianity, a martyr is a person who was killed for their testimony for Jesus or faith in Jesus. In the years of the early church, stories depict this often occurring through death by sawing, sto
Bartholomew the Apostle
…relics. He is also venerated as one of the twelve apostles on June 30. 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…
The stoning to death of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, in a painting by the 16th-century Spanish artist Juan Correa de Vivar
The Massacre of the Innocents (detail) by Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. 1515), National Museum in Warsaw
The Martyrdom of San Acacio (Acacius, Agathus, Agathius). From Triptych. Museo del Prado
The martyrs Maximus and Theodotus of Adrianopolis, c. 985