Bartholomew
Bartholomew is an apostle who traveled with Philip and Mariamne. According to the Acts of Philip, following the resurrection of Jesus, Philip was sent with his sister Mariamne and Bartholomew to preach in Greece, Phrygia, and Syria. He was tortured alongside Philip and Mariamne, and was crucified upside-down, but the crowd released him from his cross.
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When
- First attested
- 0 CE
- Attested period
- 0 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Appears in the Acts of Philip, likely written in the 3rd century.
Relationships
- allied with
- Philip the Apostle, Mariamne, Jude Thaddeus, Jude
- enemy of
- Astyages
- co occurs with
- Peter, Vitus, George, Martin of Tours, Michael, Florian, Gotthard of Hildesheim, Wenceslaus, Saint Primitivus, Saint Constantius, Saint Auratianus, Melchior Grodziecki, Clement of Rome, Hippolytus of Rome, John of Nepomuk, Paulina of Rome, Pope Pius V, Saint Ligorius, Procopius of Sázava, Paul, John the Baptist
- student of
- starets
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“following the resurrection of Jesus, Philip was sent with his sister Mariamne and Bartholomew to preach in Greece, Phrygia, and Syria. According to this account, through a miraculous healing and his preaching Philip converted the wife of the proconsul of the city.”
#1092 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Saint Bartholomew has been credited with several miracles...his body having miraculously washed up there...This association with medicine caused Bartholomew's name to become associated in course of time with hospitals.”
#1117 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“the Apostles Jude and Bartholomew are traditionally believed to have been the first to bring Christianity to Armenia, and are therefore venerated as the patron saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Linked to this tradition is the Saint Thaddeus Monastery”
#1150 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Plzeň – Bartholomew”
#35920 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5