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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture St Bartholomew. Bartholomew was an apostle, thus named by the Synoptic gospels (the name means 'son of Tolmai'), though he is generally identified by most biblical scholars today with the Nathaniel in the Fourth Gospel. No certain traditions about his place of minIstry or death. The Roman Martyrology gives him an apostolate in India and Armenia, where he is said to have been flayed alive before being beheaded. His relics are claimed to have been translated first to the island of Lipara, then to Beneventum and finally to Rome where they are claimed by the church of St Bartholomew on the Tiber. In the 11th century what was claimed to be an arm of Bartholomew was given to Canterbury by Emma, wife of Cnut, which probably contributed to the diffusion of the cult in England (though he also appears in the Life of Guthlac). 165 ancient English dedications to him, including Crowland Abbey. He is often shown holding a flaying knife and sometimes, as at Grappenhall in Cheshire (see below) with his flayed skin neatly folded across his arm! Acaster Malbis, Holy Trinity, Yorkshire, east window, 3e-4e: Glass of the c.1340 by the West window workshop of York Minster. https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2831009917 and detail of head: https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2833567496 Oxford, Merton College Chapel, nVI, 3b: glass of c.1305-12. https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/6404936845 Withcote, Withcote Chapel, Leicestershire, nIII, 2a-3a, c.1537: https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/6404936845 Cartmel Priory, Cumbria, east window, A9 15thC.: https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2892467209 Langport, All Saints, Somerset, east window, C3 15thC.: https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2829153788 Orchardleigh, St Mary, Somerset nII, 3a 15thC.: https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2490113513 and detail: https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2490110905 Metz, Cathédrale Saint-Étienne, Bay 20, martyrdom of St B3, ?1260'S: https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4313915092 Grappenhall, St Wilfrid, Cheshire, sIII, 1c, c .1334 : https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2831205960 Folkingham, St Andrew, Lincolnshire, nIII, 3b, head of St B, c.1330-50: https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/2269052939 Melbury Bubb, St Mary, Dorset, wI, 3b (with St Philip), Late 15thc. : https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/3480765682 Gordon Plumb ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion