St. Bartholomew, whose feast day is Aug. 24, is the patron saint of butchers and leatherworkers.

May 15—Bartholomew is one of the lesser-known apostles, but his story is an impressive yet disturbing one if you believe the scholars of ancient times. Considered to be the same man as the ...

Bartholomew is believed to have suffered the most gruesome of all the apostles’ martyrdoms, being skinned alive and beheaded in either Armenia or India. The Revs.

Isaiah 43.8-13 or Acts 5.12-16 or 1 Corinthians 4.9-15; Luke 22.24-30. Almighty and everlasting God, who gave to your apostle Bartholomew grace truly to believe and to preach your word: grant that ...

St. Bartholomew is one of the 12 Apostles, but one about whom relatively less is known. Certain Apostles immediately stand out: Peter, James the Greater and John come to mind.

Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle. Rv 21:9b-14; John 1:45-51. The call of Nathaniel, also known as Bartholomew, tells us a lot about how disciples become apostles.

11. Bartholomew, probably Nathanael. He isn’t even mentioned in the Gospel of John 一 someone named Nathanael is, instead. But, man did he most likely go in a gnarly way.

T he 12 apostles of Jesus were ordinary men who were like us in many ways. After the death of Christ, these men were like sheep without a shepherd. ... Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, and others.

Canada’s Catholic archbishop of Regina, Don Bolen, and the Canadian British-born Anglican suffragan bishop in Europe, David Hamid, explained this to America at the Basilica of St. Bartholomew ...