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Why Was St Bartholomew Flayed?
Why Was St Bartholomew Flayed?
James H. Sterling••6 min read
This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr
Christian martyr
In Christianity, a martyr is a person considered to have died because of their testimony for Jesus or faith in Jesus. In years of the early church, stories depict this often occurring through death by sawing, stoning, crucifixion, burning at the stake or other forms of torture and capital punishment.
Flaying, also known colloquially as skinning, is a method of slow and painful execution in which skin is removed from the body. Generally, an attempt is made to keep the removed portion of skin intact.
and beheaded. Saint Bartholomew was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. ... According to traditional hagiography, he was flayed and beheaded there for converting the king to Christianity.
What did Saint Bartholomew do?
Along with his fellow apostle Jude "Thaddeus", Bartholomew is reputed to have brought Christianity to Armenia in the 1st century. Thus, both saints are considered the patron saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church. ... He is said to have been martyred for having converted Polymius, the king of Armenia, to Christianity.
How was Bartholomew killed?
The apostle is said to have been martyred by flaying and beheading at the command of the Armenian king Astyages. His relics were supposedly taken to the Church of St. Bartholomew-in-the-Tiber, Rome.
