College of St Bartholomew

The College of St Bartholomew (aka St Bart's) is an SCA college in the Barony of Stormhold, Kingdom of Lochac. It was originally started in 1986 at the University of Melbourne, but became dormant in 1998. Circa 2004, it was restarted by a group of keen students from the university who have great hopes for its success, finally becoming affiliated with the university and flourishing in 2007. Although, it's still very much under the protective wings of the wider Stormhold community. And then it sadly died again. Members of their sibling group, the College of St Monica hope fervently that St Barts will return to life one day, so that they may declare war on the Bartians. A common saying is "The College of St Barts, be still in our hearts."

It was named after St Barthlomew with the belief that he was the patron saint for beekeeping. It is simple really. Bees make honey. Honey makes mead. Mead makes everyone happy!

Of course, future research has failed to find such patronage but no-one really cares about that!

The members of the College are collectively known as "Bartians". They are the uncontested third college of Lochac.

Strangely, despite its status as being sadly deceased, the College of St Bartholemew came in sixth place at Inter-College War XXIX, placing above the Colleges of St Crispin AND Passalaqua. Their living sister St Monica placed in fifth. The tenacity of Bartians cannot be understated...

External Links

• Homepage of the College of St. Bartholomew