Sunday, February 10, 2013

Here is a man in whom there is no deception.


Statue of St. Bartholomew
Milan Cathedral
(Italian: Duomo di Milano
Lombard: Domm de Milan)
Milan, Italy
(Marco d'Agrate, 1562) [1]


Bartholomew was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, and is usually identified with Nathanael, alternatively Nathaniel. Jesus immediately characterizes him as "Here is a man in whom there is no deception."
Eusebius of Caesarea's Ecclesiastical History (v §10) states that after the Ascension, Bartholomew went on a missionary tour to India, where he left behind a copy of the Gospel of Matthew. Along with his fellow apostle Jude, Bartholomew is reputed to have brought Christianity to Armenia in the 1st century. Thus both saints are considered the patron saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church. In the course of time Bartholomew's name to became associated with medicine and hospitals.

 

GOSPEL (QUESTIONS) OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW

THE BOOK OF THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST
BY BARTHOLOMEW THE APOSTLE


Statue of St. Bartholomew
Milan Cathedral
(Italian: Duomo di Milano
Lombard: Domm de Milan)
Milan, Italy
(Marco d'Agrate, 1562) [1]

[1] Marco d'Agrate (c. 1504 -c. 1574) was an Italian sculptor of the Rennaissance period, active mainly in Lombardy. His best known work is the morbidly, pathologically correct statue of St Bartholomew Flayed (1562) found in the transept of the Cathedral of Milan. He signed it with a line that states: I was not made by Praxiteles but by Marco d'Agrate.














God goes with me wherever I go. You can indeed afford to laugh at fear thoughts, remembering that God goes with you wherever you go. You can never be deprived of your perfect holiness because its Source goes with you wherever you go. You can never suffer because the Source of all joy goes with you wherever you go. You can never be alone because the Source of all life goes with you wherever you go. Nothing can destroy your peace of mind because God goes with you wherever you go. It is quite possible to reach God; it is the most natural thing in the world. You might even say it is the only natural thing in the world. The way will open, if you believe that it is possible. Lesson 41


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