Bartimae'us (Baprijuaioc.for the Chald. ^XHa ^3? son of Timmai), one of the two blind beggars of Jericho who (Mark x, 46 sq. ; comp. Matt, xx, 30) sat by the wayside begging as our Lord passed out of Jericho on his last journey to Jerusalem, A.D. 29. Notwith- standing that many charged him to be quiet, he con- tinued crying, "Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me !" Being called, and his blindness miraculous- ly cured, on the ground of his faith, by Jesus, he be- came thenceforward a believer.
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taught rhetoric for four years. For twelve years he exercised the ministry of preaching in the principal towns of Italy, and died at Rome, January 13th, 1685. Bartoli is considered as one of the best writers of his countn', and is the author of man)' works, all written in Italian, but of which Latin and other translations have been published. The most important of his works is the History of the Company of Jesus (Istoria della Compagnia di Gesu), in several parts, forming 6 vols, folio, viz. : (i.) "The Life and Institute of St. Ignatius" (Rome, 1650). (ii.) "The History of the Company of Jesus," Asia, Part I (Rome, 1650). (iii.) "History of Japan," Part II of Asia (Rome, 1660). (iv.) "Histon' of China," Part III of Asia (Rome, 1061). (v.) " History of England," Part of Europe (Rome, 1667). (vi.) " History of Italy," Part I of Europe (Rome, 1673). He wrote also lives of Loyola, Caraffa, and other Jesuits, which, with the work above named, are repositories of facts as to the history of the Jesuits. His complete works were published by Marietti (Turin, 1825, 12 vols.), and a selection, under the title Descrizioni geograf e stor., by Silvestri (Milan, 1826).— Landon, Eccl. Did. ii, 55.
Bartine, David, an eminent Methodist preacher, was born in Westchester county, N. Y., Jan. 26, 1767. He was converted at twenty-one, and his piety, zeal, and talent early drew the eyes of the Church toward him as one called to preach the Gospel. His first field of labor was Salem Circuit, to which he was sent by Bishop Asbury. The next year (1793) he was received into the travelling connection, and from that time till he became supernumerary (1835) he labored without intermission, principally in New Jersey. His natural talents were of a ver}' high order ; he had a judgment clear and penetrating, powers of perception compre- hensive and discriminating, a memory acute and very retentive, and an energy which insured success. In his preaching he usually addressed the understanding and the judgment, and yet often, in the application of his argument, his appeals to the heart were peculiarly eloquent and impressive. He died April 26th, 1850. —Minutes of Con f. iv, 567; K J. Conf. Memorial, 183.
Bartoli, Daniel, an Italian Jesuit, born at Fer- rara in 1608, who entered the company in 1623, and
Barton, Elizabeth, the "holy maid of Kent," first becomes known to us in 1525, when, while a ser- vant at an inn at Aldington, in Kent, she began to ac- quire a local reputation for sanctity and miraculous endowments. She was subject to epileptic fits, and in the paroxysms vented incoherent phrases, which Richard Master, parson of Aldington, took advantage of to make people believe that she was an instrument of divine revelation. A successful prediction lent its aid to the general delusion. A child of the master of the inn happened to be ill when Elizabeth was at- tacked by one of her fits. On recovering, she inquired whether the child was dead. She was told that it was still living. " It will not live, I announce to you; its death has been revealed to me in a vision," was the answer. The child died, and Elizabeth was immediatelj- regarded as one favored by Heaven with the gift of prophecy. She soon after entered the con- vent of St. Sepulchre's at Canterbury, and became a nun. In this new situation her revelations multiplied, and she became generally known as the "holy maid of Kent." Bishop Fisher and Archbishop Warham countenanced her pretensions. Led by her zeal, or more probably worked upon by others, she boldly prophesied in reference to the divorce of Henry VIII from Catherine and his marriage with Anne Boleyn, "that she had knowledge by revelation from heaven that God was highly displeased with our said sovereign lord, and that if he proceeded in the said divorce and separation and married again, he should no longer be king of this realm ; and that, in the estimation of Al- mighty God, he should not be king one hour, and that he should die a villain's death." The prediction was widely diffused, and caused great popular excitement.
I In November, 1533, the nun, with five priests and three lay gentlemen, her accomplices, were brought before the Star Chamber, and sentenced to do public penance
1 as impostors at St. Paul's Cross. But the nun's con- fession, whatever were its motives, availed her noth- ing. From the pillory she and her companions were led back to prison, where they lay till the following January, when they were attainted of high treason.
! On the" 21st of April, 1534, the nun was beheaded at Tyburn, together with the five priests.— English Cy- clopadia; Burnet, History of Reformation, i, 243-219.
Barton, John B., a Methodist Episcopal minister I and missionary, was born in Savannah 1806, convert- ed 1831, entered the itinerant ministry in the Georgia Conference 1834, and was sent as missionary to Africa, where he arrived in August, 1835, and was appointed to Bassa Cove. In 1837 he returned to the United States, and married Eleanor Gilbert, of Charleston, S. C. In 1838 he went back with his family to Africa,