June 11th: SS. Bartholomew and Banabas

Ss. Bartholomew and Barnabas were Apostles. Bartholomew is thought by many to be Nathaniel, the "Israelite without guile" of St. John's Gospel. He suffered martyrdom in Greater Armenia, and his relics are in his church Rome. St. Barnabas was one of the Seventy discipl;es. He laboured with St. Paul in Antioch, Seleucia, and is said to have been stoned to death by the Jews on the Island of Cyprus.