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82 PHC:NICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

It appears to have been regarded at the Vatican as of some historical importance, if the report is to be trusted, which says: “ Tradition has it that a certain nobleman heard at the Vatican prayers offered up for the restoration, amongst a list of others, of St. Bartholomew’s chapel in Tarves, (now Barthol Chapel Parish).’*

“ Bartle Fair,” one of the oldest in the district, is held annually at Barthol Chapel, on the last Wednesday of August, that is a date corresponding to St. Bartholomew’s Day, the 24th August in the Romish calendar. It is an old-time fair, where tubs, spoons, fir-lights (torches). sheep, etc., were sold : now it is chiefly confined to horses.?

The change of the old traditional name ‘ Part-olon ” by the monks into “ Barthol”’ and “St. Bartholomew” is easily explicable from the known facts in the early history of the Christian Church, where the Romish priests in proselytizing the people were in the habit of incorporating the pre-Christian heroes of the latter into their lists of Christian saints. That change of the name, indeed, had already been made by Nennius* and Geoffrey‘ in their later translations of the British Chronicles, wherein they call Part-olon of the Irish Chronicles ‘ Partoloim,” “ Partholomus,’* and “ Bartholomeus.”’

With reference to this alteration of the name to “ Bartholomew,’’ it is interesting to note that the apostle Bartholomew or properly ‘‘ Bartholomaios,”’ as his name is written in the Greek text of the New Testament, bears an Aryan and not a Hebrew name,‘ which contains the element Barat or “ Brit-on.”’ conjoined also with the Aryan affix oloma which is a recognized

Haddon House, not far distant. The Arbroath Register records that between 1199 and 1207 Matthew, Bishop of Aberdeen, confirmed the grant which had been made to the monks of Arbroath, of the kirk of Tarves ‘with the capella de Fuchull ’—which is shown to be identical with Barthol Chapel. And other records go on till 1247.

‘From Mr. Sutter's notes. = Tb.

SSeChmra. 4 Ch. iii., 12.

* Although his name is as noted by S.B. Gould, ‘‘ not Hebrew,” it is usually assumed to be so, and is conjectured by Hebrew scholars to mean the Hebrew Barv—son and Talmai of “ Talmai,” and analogous to Peter’s title of “ Bar-jonah’’; although the latter is never used by itself. As to the theory that Bartholomew is identical with Nathaniel, the Excyi, Biblica (489) says “‘ It is a mere conjecture.”