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's The Last Judgement shows Saint Bartholomew holding the knife of his martyrdom and his flayed skin. The face of the skin is recognizable as Michelangelo.]] Bartholomew was one of the 12 Apostle s of Jesus . ''Bartholomew'' ( Greek "Βαρθολομαιος," Transliterated "Bartholomaios") comes from the Aramaic ''bar-Tôlmay'', meaning ''son of Tolmay'' or ''son of the furrows'' (perhaps a ploughman). He is generally supposed to have been the same person as Nathanael . In the Synoptic Gospels of Matthew , Mark , and Luke , Philip and Bartholomew are always mentioned together, while Nathanael is never mentioned; in the Gospel Of John , on the other hand, Philip and Nathanael are similarly mentioned together, but nothing is said of Bartholomew. According to Syria n tradition, Bartholomew's original name was Jesus, which caused him to adopt another name. According to ( Acts 1:4, 12, 13). Tradition has it that after the ascension, Bartholomew went on a missionary tour to India , where he left behind a copy of the Gospel Of Matthew . In works of art he is often represented with a large knife, or, as in Michelangelo 's '' Last Judgment '', with his own skin hanging over his arm, tradition holds that in Armenia he was Flayed alive and then Crucified with his head upside down. This fate has led to him being adopted as the Patron Saint of Tanners . Bartholomew, along with Saint Jude Thaddeus is reputed to have brought the new religion of Christianity to Armenia in the 1st Century . Thus the Armenian Church is called the Armenian "Apostolic" Church, as both saints are considered to be the patron saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church . The festival of St. Bartholomew is celebrated on August 24 . The holiday has a relatively bloody history, being the date of the impalement of 30,000 Transylvanians by Vlad The Impaler (Dracula) as well as that of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre . ''BARTHOLOMEW'' IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES
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