Saints Library · Teaching and Sharing
St. Bartholomew the Apostle
Patron of Armenia, Tanners, Butchers and Others
Life and historical setting
Bartholomew the Apostle is presented in this library as a saint remembered as Patron of Armenia, Tanners, Butchers and Others. The supplied record places this life within Galilee.
The source narrative particularly foregrounds gospel encounter and discipleship, preaching and evangelization, pastoral and ecclesial leadership, and founding and renewal. Together, these themes frame Bartholomew the Apostle’s vocation through teaching and sharing the faith across generations.
The supplied edition records August 24 as the feast-day reference; the recorded patronage is Patron of Armenia, Tanners, Butchers and Others. These details provide a reliable editorial framework for continued enrichment while keeping historical claims, devotional tradition, and current liturgical status properly distinguished.
Vocation and witness
These themes were identified from the supplied source record and provide a structured guide to the life.
Gospel encounter and discipleship
The supplied account connects this life directly with Christ, the Gospel, or the apostolic witness.
Preaching and evangelization
The source remembers preaching, missionary work, baptism, catechesis, or another form of evangelization.
Pastoral and ecclesial leadership
The account includes pastoral, monastic, or ecclesial leadership exercised for the good of the Church.
Founding and renewal
The source associates this life with founding, restoring, or strengthening a Christian work or community.
Courageous public witness
The narrative records fidelity expressed publicly despite conflict, opposition, exile, or imprisonment.
Martyrdom and sacrifice
The source presents suffering or death borne in fidelity to Christ and the faith.
Sharing the faith
The source presents teaching and evangelization as service to the Church and future generations.
Spiritual legacy
Within the source collection, Bartholomew the Apostle is placed under the theme “Teaching and Sharing.” That lens invites reflection on patient teaching, evangelization, and the faithful transmission of the Catholic faith; it is a doorway into the life, not a complete definition of it.
The title or patronage recorded for this profile—Patron of Armenia, Tanners, Butchers and Others—shows how later Christian memory connected this witness with particular communities, needs, vocations, or works of mercy.
Prayerful reflection
God of holiness, through the witness of Bartholomew the Apostle, strengthen us in patient teaching, evangelization, and the faithful transmission of the Catholic faith. Keep our attention fixed on Jesus Christ, and teach us to answer grace faithfully in the duties, relationships, and needs placed before us. Amen.
Historical and liturgical note
Older devotional sources can preserve valuable memory while also reflecting earlier research, calendars, titles, spellings, or canonization status. Where this profile distinguishes documented history from tradition or legend, that distinction should be preserved. Confirm current liturgical observance with the calendar used by your diocese, country, religious community, or Eastern Catholic Church.
Profile synthesized from the supplied Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives card collection. Detailed volume and page references are retained privately in the WordPress record for editorial review.