Notre Dame de Rouen. The façade of the Gothic Church in France. Photographer: Hippo1947. Licence: SHUTTERSTOCK.

25 August, 2026

Neuschwanstein Castle, Schwangau, Bavaria, Germany. King Ludwig II Of Bavaria’s Creation. (Part Nine).



Photo: 31 July 2013.
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The Throne Hall, Neuschwanstein Castle.
Photograph by Joseph Albert 1886. 
Postcard published 1890 - 1900. 
Detroit Publishing Co. Print No. 17479.
Date: 1886.
Source:
Photochrom from Photoglob AG Zürich (PZ, 17479); Views of Germany in the Photochrom Print Collection. This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.00180.
Author: Josef Albert (1825–1886).
(Wikimedia Commons)


Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.

In April 1945, the SS considered blowing up the Palace to prevent the building and the artwork it contained from falling to the enemy.[46] 

The Plan was not realised by the SS-Gruppenführer who had been assigned the task, and, at the end of the War, the Palace was surrendered undamaged to representatives of the Allied Forces.[46] 



Neuschwanstein Castle.
Photo: 14 May 2005.
This File is licensed under the 
2.0 Generic Licence.
Author: Jeff Wilcox.
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The Allied occupation authorities eventually returned the Palace to the reconstituted Bavarian State Government. 

Thereafter, the Bavarian archives used some of the rooms as a provisional store for salvaged archival material, as its premises in Munich had been bombed.[47]

The effect of Neuschwanstein is highly stylistic, both externally and internally. The King’s influence is apparent throughout, and he took a keen personal interest in the design and decoration. 

An example can be seen in his comments, or commands, regarding a mural depicting Lohengrin in the Palace: “His Majesty wishes that . . . the ship be placed further from the shore, that Lohengrin’s neck be less tilted, that the chain from the ship to the swan be of Gold and not of Roses, and, finally, that the style of the Castle shall be kept Mediæval.”[48]



View from location of unrealised Chapel along Upper Courtyard level: Bower (Left, with Balcony of Elsa von Brabant), Palace (Front), and Knights’ House (Right), according to Wagner’s Stage Directions for
Antwerp Castle in the Second Act of Lohengrin.
Schloss Neuschwanstein, Blick auf die östliche Palasfront.
Photo: 16 June 2011.
Source: Own work.
Copyleft: This work of art is free; you can redistribute 
it and/or modify it according to terms of the Free Art License. You will find a specimen of this license on the 
Author: Taxiarchos228.
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The suite of rooms within the Palace contain the Throne Room, King Ludwig’s suite, the Singers’ Hall, and the Grotto.

The Interior, and especially the Throne Room Byzantine-Arab construction, recall the Chapels and Churches of the Royal Sicilian Norman-Swabian period in Palermo, Sicily, related to the Kings of Germany House of Hohenstaufen.

PART TEN FOLLOWS.
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Westminster. Rouen. Chinon. Poitiers. The Four Centres Of Power For Henry II Plantagenet. Mediæval King Of England 1154 – 1189. Friend And Foe Of Thomas à Becket. (Part Eight).





Soundtrack from Simon Schama’s
“A History of Britain”,
which included King Henry II’s reign.
Sung by Emma Kirkby and Lucie Skeaping.
Music by John Harle.
Available on YouTube


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unless stated otherwise.

Thomas Becket, also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London, and, later, Thomas à Becket, 21 December circa 1119 – 29 December 1170, was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is Venerated as a Saint and Martyr by both The Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion.

He engaged in conflict with Henry II, King of England, over the rights and privileges of The Catholic Church and was murdered by followers of the King in Canterbury Cathedral. Soon after his death, he was Canonised by Pope Alexander III.



The Cloisters at Canterbury Cathedral.
Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas à Becket,
would have often walked these Cloisters.
Photo: 28 July 2014.
Source: Own work.
Author: Diliff.
Attribution:
“Photo by DAVID ILIFF.
Licence: CC-BY-SA 3.0”
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In June 1170, Roger de Pont L'Évêque, the Archbishop of York, along with Gilbert Foliot, the Bishop of London, and Josceline de Bohon, the Bishop of Salisbury, Crowned the Heir Apparent, Henry the Young King, at York.

This was a breach of Canterbury’s Privilege of Coronation, and, in November 1170, Becket Excommunicated all three.


While the three Clergymen fled to King Henry II in Normandy, France, Becket continued to excommunicate his opponents in The Church, the news of which also reached Henry.

Upon hearing reports of Becket’s actions, Henry is said to have uttered words that were interpreted by his men as wishing Becket killed.

The King’s exact words are in doubt and several versions have been reported.

PART NINE FOLLOWS.
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Albi Cathedral, France.



English:
Choir and Rood Screen, Albi Cathedral.
Français: Chœur et jubé
Magyar: Kórus és szentélyrekesztő,
Szent Cecília-katedrális, Albi.
Polski: Chór kapłański oraz łuk tęczowy
(katedra Św. Cecylii w Albi we Francji).
Photo: 2 July 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Pom²
(Wikimedia Commons)


English: Albi Cathedral’s Great Organ.
Français: Buffet d’orgues
(Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile, Albi).
Photo: 2 July 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Pom²
(Wikimedia Commons)


Albi Cathedral.
Available on YouTube
HERE


English: Ceiling Vaults, Albi Cathedral.
Français: Voûtes peintes de la cathédrale 
(Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile, Albi).
Photo: 2 July 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Pom²
(Wikimedia Commons)


Albi Cathedral.
A Quadripartite Cross-Ribbed Vault, located thirty metres (100 feet) above the ground; painted between 1509 and 1512.
Deutsch: Teilansicht eines vierteiligen Kreuzrippengewölbes, 30 m über Bodenniveau, in den Jahren 1509 bis 1512 ausgemalt, Kathedrale Sainte-Cécile, Albi, Frankreich.
Français: Détail d'une voûte sur croisée d'ogives quadripartite située à 30m du sol, peintes entre 1509 et 1512 
(Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile, Albi).
Photo: 2 July 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Pom²
(Wikimedia Commons)


English: Gothic Rood Screen, Albi Catheral.
Français: Jubé gothique vu depuis la nef. 
Abside en arrière plan 
(Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile, Albi).
Photo: 2 July 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Pom²
(Wikimedia Commons)


Organ recital at Albi Cathedral.
13 July 2022.
Available on YouTube
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Saint Louis IX. King And Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 25 August. White Vestments.


Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Saint Louis IX.
   King And Confessor.
   Feast Day 25 August.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.


English: King Saint Louis IX mediates between
The King of The English and his Barons (23 January 1264).
Français: Saint Louis médiateur entre le roi d'Angleterre
et ses barons (23 janvier 1264) ou Saint-Louis se prononçant comme arbitre à Amiens entre Henri III roi d'Angleterre
et les barons anglais.
Artist: Georges Rouget (1783–1869).
Date: 1820.
Current location: Palace of Versailles, France.
Source/Photographer: 
(Wikimedia Commons)


Arms (Ancien).
The Kingdom of France.
Date: 31 March 2010.
Source: Own work.
Author: Sodacan
(Wikimedia Commons)


Saint Louis IX.
King of France.
Available on YouTube

Louis IX, born in 1215, became King of France at the age of twelve. He was very piously brought up by his mother, Queen Blanche, who taught him to wish rather to die than to commit a Mortal Sin. He liked to be called Louis of Poissy, the place where he had been Baptised, to show that his Title of Christian was his most glorious Title of Nobility.

"Despising the pleasures of The World, he only strove to please Jesus Christ, The True King" (Collect), "and was," says Bossuet, "the Holiest and most Just King who has ever worn the Crown."

Assiduous in attending The Offices of The Church, he ordered them to be Solemnly Celebrated in his Palace, where, every day, he heard two Masses. At Midnight, he rose for Matins and began his Royal Day with The Office of Prime. He introduced into his Chapel the custom of genuflecting at the words in the Creed “Et homo factus est”, and of bowing down humbly at the passage in The Passion when Jesus expires.


Statue of King Saint Louis IX,
Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre, Paris.
Photo: 10 July 2009.
(Wikimedia Commons)

Both these pious practices were adopted by The Church. "They impute to me as a crime my assiduity at Prayer," he would say, "but not a word would be said if I gave to play or to the hunt the hours I give to Prayer." But never did his piety hinder him from devoting to the affairs of the Kingdom the greater part of his time.

Having recovered from a serious illness, he made a Vow to undertake a Crusade to reconquer Jerusalem. At first victorious, he fell at last into the hands of the Saracens. Restored to freedom, he remained five years in The East helping the Christians. On his return to France, he made many pious Foundations and built "Sainte Chapelle", as a precious Reliquary for The Holy Crown of Thorns and the important particle of The True Cross, which Baldwin II, Emperor of Constantinople, had presented to him.


King Saint Louis IX meeting 
Pope Innocent IV at Cluny Abbey, France.
Date: 14th-Century.
Author: Grandes Chroniques de France, Paris.
(Wikipedia)

Most austere, himself, he was most charitable to others, and used to say: "It is more meet for a King to ruin himself in Alms, for God's sake, than in pomp and vain glory." "Often," says Joinville, "I have seen the good King, after Mass, go to the wood at Vincennes, sit down at the foot of an Oak Tree and there listen to all who who had to speak to him."

A Servant of Christ, he continually wore The Cross to show that his Vow remained unaccomplished. He undertook, in 1270, another Crusade, but an epidemic decimated his army, near Tunis, and struck him down.

With his arms crossed, and lying on a bed of ashes, he gave up his Soul to God in 1270, at the same hour that Christ died on The Cross. He was heard to repeat the day before his death: “We shall go to Jerusalem.” It was, in reality, to Heavenly Jerusalem, conquered by his patience in the midst of his adversities, where he was to reign with The King of Kings (Collect).

Mass: Os justi.
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24 August, 2026

Cathedral And Metropolitan Church Of Saint Stephen And All Saints, Vienna, Austria. (Part Six).



English: 
Cathedral and Metropolitan Church of 
Saint Stephen and All Saints, Vienna, Austria.
Deutsch: 
Dom-und-Metropolitankirche zu 
Sankt Stephan und allen Heiligen, 
Wien, Österreich.
Photo: 8 October 2017.
Source: Own work.
This File is licensed under the 
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Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia, unless stated otherwise.

Bells.

Composer Ludwig van Beethoven discovered the totality of his deafness when he saw birds flying out of the Bell Tower as a result of the Bells tolling, but he could not hear the Bells.

Saint Stephen’s Cathedral has twenty-two Bells in total. The largest is officially named Saint Mary, but usually called “Pummerin” (“Boomer”) and hangs in the North Tower. At 20,130 kilograms (44,380 lb), it is the largest Bell in Austria and the second-largest Swinging Bell in Europe after the 23,500 kilograms (51,800 lb) “Peter” in Cologne Cathedral. 


Originally cast in 1711 by Bell Founder Johann Achammer, from Cannons captured after the Ottoman Empire’s siege of Vienna in 1683, it was recast (partly from its original metal) in 1951 after crashing onto the floor when its wooden cradle burned during the 1945 fire.

The new Bell has a diameter of three metres (ten feet) and was a gift from the province of Upper Austria. It sounds on only a few special occasions each year, including the arrival of the New Year.


The Pulpit, Saint Stephen’s Cathedral, 
Vienna, Austria.
Photo: 31 July 2006.
Source: 
This File is licensed under the 
Author: Jmenard48
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Also in this Tower are two (formerly three) older Bells that are no longer used: “Kleine Glocke” (“Small Bell”) (sixty-two kilograms (137 lb)) cast around 1280; “Speisglocke” (“Dinner Bell”) (240 kilograms (530 lb)) cast in 1746; and Zügenglocke (“Processions Bell”) (sixty-five kilograms (143 lb)) cast in 1830. However, “Kleine Glocke” was restored at the Grassmayr Foundry in Innsbruck in 2017 and rehung in the North Roman Tower.

A peal of eleven electrically-operated Bells, cast in 1960, hangs in the soaring South Tower. The largest of these Bells is Saint Stephan’s Bell, which is the second Bourdon Bell in the Cathedral.


Replacements for other ancient Bells also lost in the 1945 fire, they are used during Masses at the Cathedral: Four Bells are used for an ordinary Mass; the quantity increases to as many as ten Bells for a major Mass; and the eleventh and largest Bell is added when the Archbishop of Vienna is present.

Also in this Tower are the “Primglocke” (recast in 1772), which rings on the quarter-hour, and the “Uhrschälle” (cast in 1449), which rings on the hour.

Bells of Saint Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna:

1.    “Pummerin” / “Marienglocke”. “Boomer” / “Saint Mary”; 

2.    “Stephanusglocke”. “Saint Stephen”;

3.    “Leopoldsglocke”. “Saint Leopold”;

4.    “Christophorusglocke”. “Saint Christopher”;

5.    “Leonhardsglocke”. “Saint Leonard”;

6.    “Josefsglocke”. “Saint Joseph”;

7.    “Petrus-Canisius-Glocke”. “Saint Peter Canisius”;

8.    “Pius-X.-Glocke”. “Saint Pius X”;

9.    “Allerheiligenglocke”. “All Saints”;

10.    “Clemens-Maria-Hofbauer-Glocke”.
         “Saint Clement Maria Hofbauer”;

11.    “Erzengel-Michael-Glocke”. 
         “Saint Michael-the-Archangel”;

12.    “Tarzisiusglocke”. “Saint Tarsicius”.


The North Roman Tower contains six Bells, four of which were cast in 1772, that ring for Evening Prayers and toll for funerals. 

They are Working Bells of the Cathedral and their names usually recall their original uses: 

“Feuerin” (“Fire Alarm”), but now used as a call to Evening Prayers, cast in 1879; 

“Kantnerin”, calling the Cantors (Musicians) to Mass;


“Feringerin”, used for High Mass on Sundays;

“Bieringerin” (“Beer Ringer”), for last call at Taverns; 

“Poor Souls”, the Funeral Bell;

“Churpötsch”, donated by the local Curia in honour of the Maria Pötsch icon in the Cathedral;

“Kleine Glocke”, cast in 1280 and is the oldest Bell in the Cathedral;

The 1945 fire destroyed the Bells that hung in the South Roman Tower.[7]

During The Middle Ages, major Cities had their own set of measures and the public availability of these standards allowed visiting Merchants to comply with local regulations.



English: Official Viennese Linen “ell” and Drapery “ell” 
length standards embedded in the Cathedral wall.
Deutsch: Elle (Wiener Tuchelle, 776 mm, und 
Leinenelle, 896 mm) sowie runde Gebrauchsspuren 
eines Gitters am Stephansdom, Wien, Österreich.
Photo: 17 June 2018.
Source: Own work.
Attribution:
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PART SEVEN FOLLOWS.
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Saint Bartholomew. Apostle. Martyr. Feast Day 24 August. Red Vestments.



Saint Bartholomew.
Artist: René de Cramer.
“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.
Used with Permission.



English: Saint Bartholomew the Apostle.
By: Pierre Le Gros the Younger.
Nave of the Basilica of Saint John Lateran, Rome.
Français: Saint Barthélemy par Pierre Le Gros le Jeune.
Photo: 7 September 2006.
Source: Own work.
Author: Jastrow
(Wikimedia Commons)


Text from “The Liturgical Year”.
   By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
   Volume 14.
   Time After Pentecost.
   Book V.

A witness of The Son of God, one of the Princes who announced His Glory to the Nations, lights up this day with his Apostolic flame.

While his brethren of the Sacred College followed the human race into all the lands whither the migration of Nations had led it, Bartholomew appeared as the herald of the Lord at the very starting point, the mountains of Armenia, whence the sons of Noe spread over the Earth.



Ruins of the Saint Bartholomew Monastery at 
the alleged site of the Apostle’s Martyrdom in Armenia.
Date: Circa 1913.
Source: 
Bachmann, Walter (1913) “Kirchen und moscheen 
in Armenien und Kurdistan”, Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs.
Author: Bachmann, Walter.
(Wikimedia Commons)

There had the figurative Ark rested; humanity, everywhere else a wanderer, was there seated in stillness, remembering the Dove with its Olive Branch, and awaiting the consummation of the alliance signified by the rainbow which had there for the first time glittered in the clouds.

Behold, Blessed tidings awake in those valleys the echoes of ancient Traditions: Tidings of Peace, making the universal deluge of sin subside before the Wood of Salvation.

The serenity announced by the Dove of old, was now far outdone. Love was to take the place of punishment. The ambassador of Heaven showed God to the sons of Adam, as the most beautiful of their own brethren.


The noble heights whence formerly flowed the rivers of Paradise, were about to see the renewal of the covenant annulled in Eden, and the celebration, amid the joy of Heaven and Earth, of the Divine Nuptials so long expected, the union of the Word with regenerated humanity.

Personally, what was this Apostle whose Ministry borrowed such solemnity from the scene of his Apostolic labours ?

Under the name or surname of Bartholomew, [Editor: Son of Tholmaï] the only mark of recognition given him by the first three Gospels, are we to see, as many have thought, that Nathaniel, whose presentation to Jesus by Philip forms so sweet a scene in Saint John’s Gospel ?


A man full of uprightness, innocence, and simplicity, who was worthy to have had the Dove for his precursor, and for whom the Man-God had choice graces and caresses from the very beginning.


Saint Bartholomew.
Date: Circa 1611.
Collection: Museo del Prado.
Source/Photographer:
(Wikimedia Commons)

Be this as it may, the lot which fell to our Saint among the twelve, points to the special confidence of the Divine Heart; the heroism of the terrible Martyrdom which sealed his Apostolate reveals his fidelity; the dignity preserved by the Nation he grafted on Christ, in all the Countries where it has been transplanted, witnesses to the excellence of the sap first infused into its Branches.

When, two Centuries and a half later, Gregory the Illuminator so successfully cultivated the soil of Armenia, he did but quicken the seed sown by the Apostle, which the trials never wanting to that generous land had retarded for a time, but could not stifle.


How strangely sad, that evil men, nurtured in the turmoil of endless invasions, should have been able to rouse and perpetuate a mistrust of Rome among a Race whom wars and tortures and dispersion could not tear from the love of Christ Our Saviour !

Yet, Thanks be to God !, the movement towards return, more than once begun and then abandoned, seems now to be steadily advancing; the chosen sons of this illustrious Nation are labouring perseveringly for so desirable a union, by dispelling the prejudices of her people; by revealing to our lands the treasures of her literature so truly Christian, and the magnificenses of her Liturgy; and above all by Praying and devoting themselves to the Monastic state under the standard of the Father of Western Monks. [Editor: Mekhitarists; Armenian Monks of Saint Benedict.]

Together with these holders of the true National Tradition, let us Pray to Bartholomew their Apostle; to the Disciple Thaddeus (one of the “seventy-two”), who also shared in the first evangelisation; to Ripsima, the heroic Virgin, who from the Roman territory led her thirty-five companions to the conquest of a new land; and to all the Martyrs whose blood cemented the building upon the only foundation set by Our Lord.


We learn from Eusebius and from Saint Jerome, that before going to Armenia, his final destination, Saint Bartholomew evangelised the Indies, where Pantænus a Century later found a copy of Saint Matthew’s Gospel in Hebrew characters, left there by him.

Saint Denis records a profound saying of the Glorious Apostle, which he thus quotes and comments: “The Blessed Bartholomew says of theology, that it is at once abundant and succinct; of the Gospel, that it is vast in extent and at the same time concise; thus excellently giving us to understand that the Beneficent Cause of all beings reveals or manifests Himself by many words or by few, or even without any words at all, as being beyond and above all language or thought.

For He is above all by His superior essence.


Saint Bartholomew: Ora Pro Nobis.
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Absurd Victorian Occupations.


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Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence.



Courtyard,
Palazzo Medici-Riccardi,
Florence.
This File: 14 May 2023.
(Wikimedia Commons)

Palazzo Medici Riccardi is a historic building in the centre of Florence , located in Via Cavour 3. The first Palace owned by the Medici family in Florence, where people such as Cosimo the Elder and Lorenzo the Magnificent lived, it was sold to the Riccardi family in 1659, who enlarged it and lived there for about 150 years.


Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence.
Photo: 27 September 2021.
Source: Own work.
This File is licensed under the 
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After various vicissitudes, it became the seat of the Prefecture and the Metropolitan Council.


Photo: 2 September 2007.
Source: Own work.
Attribution: I, Sailko
Author: sailko
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Saint Bartholomew. Apostle. Whose Feast Day Is, Today, 24 August. Red Vestments.


Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Saint Bartholomew.
   Apostle.
   Feast Day 24 August.

Double of The Second-Class.

Red Vestments.


Saint Bartholomew.
Artist: René de Cramer.
"Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium".
Used with Permission.



English: Saint Bartholomew the Apostle.
By: Pierre Le Gros the Younger.
Nave of the Basilica of Saint John Lateran, Rome.
Français: Saint Barthélemy par Pierre Le Gros le Jeune.
Photo: 7 September 2006.
Source: Own work.
Author: Jastrow
(Wikimedia Commons)

Bartholomew, or, the son of Tholomy, is, according to common opinion, the Disciple whom Saint Philip brought to Our Lord , under the name of Nathanael, and whom The Master praised on account of his innocence and the simplicity of his heart.

[Philip met Nathanael and said to him: “The one of whom Moses has written in The Law, and whom The Prophets have announced, we have found: It is Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph”.

And Nathanael said to him: “Can anything good come from Nazareth” ? Philip said to him: “Come and see”.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming towards him and said of him: “That is a true Israelite, in whom there is no guile”.

Nathanael said to Him: “Whence knowest Thou me ?” Jesus answered: “Before Philip called thee, when thou wast under the Fig Tree, I saw thee”.

Nathanael replied: “Rabbi. Thou art The Son of God. Thou art The King of Israel”.

John i, 45-49.]


The site of the Apostle’s Martyrdom.
Date: Pre-1913.
Source: Bachmann, Walter (1913).
“Kirchen und moscheen in Armenien und Kurdistan”,
Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, pp. 119-123
Author: Bachmann, Walter.
(Wikimedia Commons)

For the Gospel of Saint John, never mentioning Saint Bartholomew among the Apostles, says that Philip and Nathanael came together to Jesus, and that he was among the Disciples to whom the Saviour appeared after the Resurrection on the shore of the Sea of Galilee.

The other Gospels never use the name of Nathanael, but, after Philip, they always mention Bartholomew.

Born at Cana, in Galilee, he was placed by Jesus among The Twelve (Gospel) and he was a witness of the principal actions of Jesus upon the Earth. “The first gift vouchsafed to The Church by The Holy Ghost,” says Saint Paul, “is the Grace of The Apostleship” (Epistle).


English: Church of Saint Bartholomew, Gyöngyös, Hungary.
Français: Eglise baroque Szent Bertalan de Gyöngyös.
Magyar: Szent Bertalan nagytemplom.
Română: Biserica barocă Szent Bertalan /
Sfântul Bartolomeu din Gyöngyös.
Photo: February 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Venusz
(Wikimedia Commons)


He Preached The Faith in Arabia Felix: According to certain Traditions, he was flayed alive. He is thus represented in the beautiful White Marble statue, by Cibo, in Milan Cathedral.

His Relics are Venerated at Rome, in the Church of Saint Bartholomew, on an island formed by the River Tiber. His name is mentioned in the Canon of the Mass among the Apostles.

Let us joyfully Celebrate the Feast of Saint Bartholomew, who, in Heaven, Praises God, among the Glorious Choir of the Apostles (Alleluia), and let us ask God to grant to His Church to love what he believed and to Preach what he himself taught (Collect).

Every Parish Priest Celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.

First Vespers (23 August): The Common of Apostles.
Commemoration: Saint Philip Benizi.
Antiphon: Hic vir.
Versicle: Justum.

Mass: Mihi autem.
Creed.
Preface: Of the Apostles.

Second Vespers: The Common of Apostles.
Commemoration: Saint Louis.
Antiphon at the Magnificat: Similábo.
Versicle: Amávit.

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