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ST. BARTHOLOMEW AN ARYAN PHCENICIAN 83

variant of “‘olon.” He appears to have been a Gentile ; and according to St. Jerome was the only one of the twelve apostles who was of noble birth, and author of a “‘ Gospel of Bartholomew,” latterly deemed “heretical,” possibly because of the inclusion of some Aryan Sun-worship. He is specially mentioned in connection with Philip, who also, like Bartholomew and Andrew, bore a Gentile and non-Hebrew name; and, according to the Roman Martyrology, was a native of Persia, and the traditional apostle for the shores of the Black Sea, Armenia, Phrygia and Lyconia*—that is, as we have seen,in the Barat regions, on the border of Cilicia. It thus seems probable that his proper name was also “ Partolon ”’ or “ Part-olowonie.’”’ And, curiously, the traditional place of St. Bartholomew's martyrdom was “ Albana,”’ which is usually identified with Albana, on the shore of the Caspian, north of the Caucasus, the modern Derbend.* Can it, however, be possible that the old Roman monks, in naming their chapel at Barthol in the Garrioch ‘‘ St. Bartholomew’s,’’ were influenced by this Albana tradition, in the belief that it might be.‘ Alban,” the ancient name for Britain, to which part of the reputed bodily relics of St. Bartholomew had come? The miraculous distribution cf the bodily relics of St. Bartholomew followed to some extent the sea-route followed by Part-olon. From Asia Minor the relics were believed to have sailed miraculously, by themselves, along the 42gean, and reached, amongst other places, Sicily, (Lipari), Spain (Toledo), and an arm reached Canterbury in Alban-Britannia. At Canterbury,‘ St. Bartholomew’s arm, which performed many miracles, appears to have been one of the main attractions for the pilgrims to that shrine, and gave its name to “St. Bartholomew's Hospital” in the High Street at Canterbury, ‘“‘ erected " [or rebuilt (?)] by Thomas Becket, about A.p. 1150, as an hostel for the poor Christian pilgrims of Britain in this forgotten era

1 Encyclop. Biblica, 489.

SAEPIU ESE ibe GE). 1Tb., 258f.

* Canterbury, deriving its present name from the Anglo-Saxon title of Cantiwara-byvig or “ Burg of the Men of Cant or ‘ Kent’,” was calied by the Britons “ Durwhern,”’ which bears some resemblance to the “‘ Tarves ”’ of the Barthol Chapel.