• In history and tradition (continued)

  • Bartholomew’s death

    • Returned to Armenia after Philip’s death (Derbent)

    • Healed king’s daughter, declaring their idol to be false

    • King and daughter converted, idol’s priests infuriated

      • Priests seized Bartholomew

      • Flayed alive

      • Beheaded

    • Remains moved three times before arriving in Rome

  • Thomas (Didymas)

    • Didymas means twin

    • Taught in Syria, then went on to Kochi, India

    • Jewish synagogue there was receptive

      • Refugees of the destruction of Jerusalem and Judea

      • Numbered in tens of thousands

      • Murdered during sermon – stoned then pierced with a lance

    • House and tomb found by Portuguese in 15th century

      • Mylapore, on southeast coast of subcontinent

      • Destroyed the churches there, seeing them as heretical

      • Remains taken in 17th century to Goa, Meliapore, Ortona, and Rome

  • Matthew

    • Tax collector from Capernaum – Matthew 9:9; Mark 2:13-14; Luke 5:27-28

    • Peter, James, and John might have been on the paying end at some time

    • Stayed in Jerusalem for 15 years

    • Went to Ethiopia, Macedonia, Syria, and Persia

    • Authored an account of the gospel

      • Said to have been originally in Hebrew

      • Later translated into Green and Aramaic

      • Relied heavily on Old Testament scriptures in his preaching

    • Death probably by sword or spear because of offending the Sanhedrin

      • Most of body in Salerno, Sicily

  • James son of Alpheus

    • Remained in Jerusalem as an elder in the church

    • Stoned to death at age 90

    • Location of remains in dispute

      • Dispute over who is who

      • Resultant confusion in tracking “relics”

  • Jude (Thaddeus)

    • Preached in Syria, Arabia, Armenia, and Persia

    • Remained in Edessa (Sanliurfa, Turkey) for eight years

    • Spent several years in Derbent

    • Crossed paths with Thomas, Bartholomew, Simon, and Matthias

    • Reputed to have been an elder at Edessa

    • Martyred in Edessa at 65 AD

      • Armenian kingdom divided in two

      • New king in Edessa ordered Jude and princess executed

    • Entombed at Kara Kelesia (Iran)

      • Remains removed ahead of Genghis Khan’s invasion

      • Now scattered from Italy to Spain

  • Simon the Zealot

    • Preached in Egypt

    • Continued to Carthage and Mauritania

    • Went on to Spain

    • Joined with Joseph of Arimathea to England

    • Left southern England ahead of Boudica’s conquest

    • Joined with Jude in Armenia and Persia

    • Sawed in half in Derbent about same time as Jude’s death

    • Remains in Italy, Spain, France, and Germany

  • Matthias

    • Said to have been one of the seventy

    • Preached in Judea, Cappadocia, and Colchis

    • One of the five apostles evangelizing Armenia

    • Executed in Sebastopol in 51 AD

Remains are said to be in Trier, Germany