Category:Saint Bartholomew

Feast on August 24

Born: 1st century AD in Iudaea (Palaestina) Died: 1st century AD in Armenia. Flayed and then crucified Honored in: Assyrian Church of the East Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Churches Oriental Orthodoxy Anglican Communion Lutheran Church Islam (named in Muslim exegesis as one of the disciples) Major shrine: Saint Bartholomew Monastery in historical Armenia, Relics at Saint Bartholomew-on-the-Tiber Church, Rome, the Canterbury Cathedral, the Cathedral in Frankfurt, and the San Bartolomeo Cathedral in Lipari Feast: August 24 (Western Christianity) June 11 (Eastern Christianity) Attributes: Knife and his flayed skin Patronage: Armenia; bookbinders; butchers; Florentine cheese and salt merchants; Gambatesa, Italy; Catbalogan, Samar; Għargħur, Malta; leather workers; neurological diseases; plasterers; shoemakers; curriers; tanners; trappers; twitching; whiteners