St. Bartholomew, Apostle and Martyr
August 24

It is thought that he was a close friend of Saint Philip; his name is always mentioned in the Gospels in connection with him, and it was Philip who brought Bartholomew to Jesus. Tradition says that he preached in Asia Minor, Ethiopia, India and Armenia. He was Martyred by being flayed alive at Albanopolis, Armenia; his relics are at St Bartholomew-on-the-Tiber Church, Rome, and in the cathedral in Canterbury, England.

He is the patron of Armenia, bookbinders, butchers, cobblers, Forentine cheese and salt merchants, leather workers, nervous diseases, neurological diseases, plasterers, shoemakers, tanners, trappers, twitching, and whiteners.

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