BARTHOLOMEW

(son ofTolmai), the apostle, is the probably the same person as Naihanadf mentioned in in the Go^)el of St. John as an upright Israelite, and one of the first disciples of Jesus. The derivation of his name and descent from the family of the Ptolethe mies is fabulous. He is said to have taught Christ i him anity in the south of Arabia, into which, according tibis to Eusebius, he carried the Gospel of St. Matthew acin the Hebrew language. Chrysostom mentions that he preached in Armenia and Natolia, and a later soon writer of legends says that he suffered crucifixion at the Albania PyUk (now tkrhendy in Ru ia). The ancient most church had an apocryphal gospel bearing his name, the of which nothing has been preserved.