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A grisly effigy depicts a beheaded and skinned alive early Christian martyr.
According to traditional hagiography, it’s said that Saint Bartholomew traveled to the east, and then onto Greater Armenia. Some accounts attest that he was flayed and beheaded there for converting the king to Christianity. Sixteenth-century Italian sculptor Marco d’Agrate, however, depicted him in a much more ghastly manner.
