Why Was Bartholomew Skinned?

Maya Lin-Takahashi
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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...

Why Was Bartholomew Skinned?

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.
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skinned alive
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.
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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 happened to Bartholomew?

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.

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