. The lives of the saints. With introd. and additional lives of English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish, and Welsh saints, and a full index to the entire work. lomew and Mariamne buriedPhilip, and departed together into Lycaonia. But Stachys,who had received the apostles into his house at Hierapolis,was consecrated a bishop, and sent to Byzantium, where heis commemorated on October 31. It is not worth whileexposing the absurdity of this story. The Martyrologists agree in fixing Albana or Albanopolisas the scene of the martyrdom of S. Bartholomew. Thetown intended seems to have been Albana on the sh
. The lives of the saints. With introd. and additional lives of English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish, and Welsh saints, and a full index to the entire work. lomew and Mariamne buriedPhilip, and departed together into Lycaonia. But Stachys,who had received the apostles into his house at Hierapolis,was consecrated a bishop, and sent to Byzantium, where heis commemorated on October 31. It is not worth whileexposing the absurdity of this story. The Martyrologists agree in fixing Albana or Albanopolisas the scene of the martyrdom of S. Bartholomew. Thetown intended seems to have been Albana on the shore ofthe Caspian, north of the Caucasus, the modern unanimity of tradition in fixing on this remote spot asthe place where he suffered, makes it probable that this wasindeed the scene of his martyrdom. The story of his apostolate in India and Arabia must beabandoned. The tradition of his having been at Hierapolis,and of having preached in Armenia, seems more worthy ofconsideration, but then it must have been Hierapolis inSyria that he visited, and not Hierapolis in Phrygia. FromHierapolis he went on into Armenia, and pushed through ^ ^. S. the Vienna Missal. p. 256.] [Aug. 24. ► ^- -►■< August 34.] S. BartJiolomew. 257 it, always in the same direction, till he reached the Caspianat Derbend, and there suffered. The Armenian ecclesias-tical historians unanimously claim S. Bartholomew as theirapostle, and the martyrologists, with one consent, assertthat he preached in Armenia. The saint is said to have been flayed alive by order ofthe Armenian Prince Polymius, or by Astyages, the brother ofPolymius; or, according to the Armenian historians, Sana-trug, whose daughter he had converted to the Faith. Whenflayed, Bartholomew was suspended on a cross, and left todie in agonies, exposed to the flies. The remains of S. Bartholomew were afterwards removed,in 508, by the Emperor Anastasius, to the city of Daras inMesopotamia, not far from Nisibis
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