Barnabe

Barnabe or Barnabas († v. 60) is a character of the New Testament.

He is regarded as a holy by the roman catholics (celebrated the June 11th) and the orthodoxe ones.

Born in the island from Cyprus, Barnabé does not form part of the twelve Apôtre S, but the Church allots of it to him the title for the share taken by him in the diffusion of the word of the Christ. He is the cousin of Marc the evangelist. He places all his goods at the disposal of the apostles.

Barnabe accompanies Paul de Tarse in his first missions at the pagan . He is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles in chapter 15 concerning what one called the Concile of Jerusalem.

The co-operation between Paul and Barnabé knew a dissension following the composition of their team of the young Church. Here stop the data founded on reliable documents going back to the first century. The continuation rests on traditions much later and less sure.

It would have been withdrawn in its island of Cyprus where it would have died martyrized close to Salamine, current Famagouste. Its tomb, discovered under the emperor Zénon (5th century), contained a specimen of the Évangile according to Matthieu.

It is also traditionally associated with the Épître of Barnabe, although the modern scholars think that it is more probable than this epistle was written with Alexandria in the Années 130. One also allotted Actes which are apocryphal books, and a to him Évangile of Barnabe, apocryphal book Moslem of which nobody makes mention before Ibrahim Al-Taybili, about 1634.

See too

List of the apostles
List of the catholic saints
Council of Jerusalem
For the places, to see Saint-Barnabe
Barnabé is also the title of a film with Fernandel.

External bonds

the companions of Paul, on the site of Zenith goes down for hearing of January 31st 2007 by Benoît XVI
Jacques JOMIER, '' In connection with an apocryphal book ''

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