small market-town in the county of Merioneth, North Wales. It is the only port in that division of the Welsh coast, and is much frequented in the summer as a bathing-place. The picturesque scenery in the neighbourhood largely contributes to its attractions.

Barnabas, Sr, one of the earliest apostles of Christianity, was born in Cyprus, and descended of the tribe of Levi. His proper name was Joses or Joseph, to which, after his conversion to Christianity, the apostles added that of Barnabas, signifying either "the son of prophecy" or "the son of consolation." He was educated at Jerusalem under Gamaliel. The time of his conversion is uncertain; but he is generally supposed to have been one of the seventy disciples chosen by our Saviour himself.

At Antioch Paul and Barnabas, in consequence of differing about the propriety of taking with them Mark as their minister on their second evangelizing journey, separated. The subsequent travels and acts of Barnabas are not related in the Acts of the Apostles. Some say that he went into Italy and founded a church at Milan. It is generally believed that he suffered martyrdom at Salamis, where some Jews from Syria set upon him as he was disputing in the synagogue, and stoned him to death. He was buried in a cave near that city by his kinsman Mark, whom he had taken along with him. The remains of his body are said to have been discovered in the reign of the Emperor Zeno, together with a copy of St Matthew's Gospel, written with his own hand, and lying on his breast. The festival of St Barnabas is celebrated on the 11th of June.

Barnabas, Epistle of, an apocryphal work ascribed to Barnabas, and frequently cited by Clement of Alexandria and by Origen. It was first published in Greek, from a copy of Father Hugo Ménard, a Benedictine monk. An ancient version of it, nearly a thousand years old, was found in a manuscript of the abbey of Corbey. Vossius published it in the year 1646, together with the epistles of St Ignatius; and it has been several times reprinted.

Barnabas, Gospel of, an apocryphal work ascribed to Barnabas, wherein the history of Jesus Christ is related in a manner very different from the account given us by the four evangelists. The Mahometans possess this gospel in Arabic, and it corresponds very well with those traditions which Mahomet followed in his Koran. It was probably a forgery of some nominal Christians, and afterwards altered and interpolated by the Mahometans, the better to serve their purpose. It has been translated into Italian, Spanish, and English.