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| | Saints of August 24 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | The Gospel of Bartholomew is apocryphal and was condemned in the decree of Pseudo-Gelasius. |
 | | In art, Saint Bartholomew is portrayed as a bearded, sometimes middle-aged, sometimes venerable man, with a book and a butcher's knife used for his flaying. |
 | | Bartholomew is the patron of bookbinders, butchers, corn-chandlers, dyers, glovers, furriers, leather-workers, plasterers, shoemakers, tailors, tanners, vine-growers, and Florentine salt and cheese merchants. |
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