Albanopolis was a city, probably in the Caucasus, famed in Christian myth as being the place at which the apostle Bartholomew was crucified. In Lives of the Saints, 18th-century hagiographer Alban Butler says The popular traditions concerning St Bartholomew are summed up in the Roman Martyrology, which says he "preached the gospel of Christ in India; thence he went into Greater Armenia, and when he had converted many people there to the faith he was flayed alive by the barbarians, and by command of King Astyages fulfilled his martyrdom". However, Butler himself cautions about taking the geographical clues too literally. He points out that "India" was a name applied indifferently by Greek and Latin writers to Arabia, Ethiopia, Libya, Parthia, Persia and the lands of the Medes. Similarly the