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In the Hellenic tradition, Bartholomew was executed in Albanopolis in Armenia, where he was martyred for having converted Polymius, the local king, to Christianity. Enraged by the monarch's conversion, and fearing a Roman backlash, King Polymius's brother, Prince Astyages, ordered Bartholomew's torture and execution.
Over the centuries, the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre has aroused a great deal of controversy. Modern historians are still divided over the responsibility of the royal family: The traditional interpretation makes Catherine de' Medici and her Catholic advisers the principal culprits in the execution of the principal military leaders.
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in the provinces refers to a series of killings that took place in towns across France between August and October 1572. A reaction to news of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in Paris , total deaths are estimated as between 3,000 and 5,000, roughly equivalent to those incurred in Paris.
Michelangelo's The Last Judgment - St Bartholomew holding the knife of his martyrdom and his flayed skin; it is conjectured that Michelangelo included a self-portrait depicting himself as St Bartholomew after he had been flayed alive. Flaying is a method of slow and painful torture and/or execution in which skin is removed from the body ...
Orléans heresy (1022) (burnt); Burning of the Templars, 1314 Burning of William Sawtre, 1401 John Badby burned in a barrel, 1410 Burning of Jan Hus in Constance, 1415 Joan of Arc at the stake, 1431 Rogers' execution at Smithfield, 1555 Burning of John Hooper in Gloucester, 1555 Burning of Thomas Hawkes, 1555
Bartholomew's missionary work is believed to have taken him to various regions, including India, Armenia, and Persia. According to tradition, he met a martyr's death, though accounts of his martyrdom vary. Some sources suggest he was flayed alive and then beheaded, while others propose different methods of execution.
The Act of Uniformity prescribed that any minister who refused to conform to the 1662 Book of Common Prayer by St Bartholomew's Day (24 August) 1662 should be ejected from the Church of England. This date became known as "Black Bartholomew's Day" among Dissenters , a reference to the fact that it occurred on the same day as the 1572 St ...
The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew may refer to: The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew by Jusepe de Ribera, 1630–1640; The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew by Ribera, 1634; The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew by Ribera, 1644; The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1722