St. Bartholomew the Apostle (JMAS 03) Ceramic Tree Decoration

You have several options here: 1) Leave the ornament as is with the same image on both sides. 2) Hide or delete the image of the Apostle on the back to reveal a wreath surrounding a blank parchment ready to receive a greeting, a Biblical passage, or any other text of your choosing. Or, 3) hide or delete the wreath and/or the parchment to reveal a blank, solid-coloured area. To choose a new background colour, see the suggested coordinating hues on the Colour Palette postcard for this image. Colour Palette postcards are found in an image's associated COLLECTION and in the Special COLLECTION devoted just to colour palettes. + This roundel features a pensive St. Bartholomew (also known as Nathaniel; 1st century) contemplating the sharpness of a knife. Brought to Jesus by St. Philip, the Apostle with whom he is most often associated, St. Bartholomew preached the Gospel after Christ’s Ascension in Asia Minor, Ethiopia, India, and Armenia. Traditionally, he met a most gruesome martyrdom being flayed or skinned alive. For this reason, his major attributes are a tanner’s or skinning knife... and (not shown here) a human skin! Fittingly, he is patron saint of butchers and leather workers—namely tanners, bookbinders, and shoemakers. + Feast: August 24 + Image Credit (JMAS 03): Antique image of St. Bartholomew the Apostle from a late 19th-century devotional print in chromolithography with gilt accents originally published by Josef Müller, Art Publisher, Munich, Germany, from the designer’s private collection of religious ephemera. The image is one of twelve in the publisher’s Apostle Series (No. 12155).