The first will be in September 2021, and we will conclude with a Gala Dinner in May 2022. Like his brother, Peter, Andrew allegedly didn’t consider himself worthy to die in the same way as Jesus, and tradition claims he was bound—not nailed—to a cross which was hung in an X shape instead of a T. However, the earliest origin of this narrative that we can identify today comes from Acts of Andrew, an apocryphal text which also includes numerous supernatural accounts of Andrew’s miracles which are recorded nowhere else—including a claim that he preached for three days straight as he hung on the cross—and it didn’t emerge until decades, possibly centuries after his death. But while Andrew wasn’t nearly as prominent in the New Testament as Peter, he still clearly had an important role in the early church—so much so that heretics tried to leverage his name and authority to advance their teachings. Hence the derivation of the term, St. Andrew’s Cross.”, Acts of Andrew is an apocryphal text from the second or third century which claims to record the ministry of Andrew the apostle, which focused on the region of Achaea. In the sixth century, Gregory of Tours (a bishop and historian) crafted a revised version of Acts of Andrew, believing that its “excessive verbosity” was the reason it was considered apocryphal. As Peter’s brother, Andrew was also the son of John (John 1:42) or Jonah (Matthew 16:17), a man we know almost nothing about. And nearly two millennia after his death, it’s still the most widely known detail about him. In The New Bible Dictionary, R.E. https://www.learnreligions.com/andrew-the-apostle-profile-and-biography-248797 (accessed May 8, 2021). For centuries, church tradition has supported Andrew’s ministry in many of these regions. This passage is one of the main arguments that Andrew was one of the more prominent apostles, because Peter, James, and John saw more of Jesus’ ministry than anyone else, and here Andrew is privy to teaching they received in private.All three synoptic gospels record this narrative, but only Mark specifies which disciples were there. St. Andrew the Apostle St Andrew was a native of Bethsaida, a town in Galilee, upon the banks of the lake of Genesareth. That is, he was likely a strong man both in will and physical stature. He aligned it with orthodox teachings and added a little here and there. Religious Education (CCD) Contact Us. From the handful of passages he appears in, we can make several observations about who Andrew was. Andrew was the first person to become one of Jesus’ disciples. But if Andrew is simply one of the “two other disciples” here, that would seem to indicate Andrew wasn’t a particularly important disciple—at least not in John’s recollection—because he wasn’t even worth mentioning by name. Since the Gospel of John records that Andrew followed Jesus before any of the other apostles (and the other disciple isn’t named), the Byzantine church referred to Andrew as the Protoklete, or “the First Called.”. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. Today Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland. Like his brother Simon Peter and several of the other disciples, Andrew was a fisherman. And while many Christians try to infer larger details about Andrew’s personality and character from the scant passages that mention him, there’s one thing we can be confident of: long before Peter made his monumental declaration that Jesus was the Messiah (Matthew 16:16–20), his brother Andrew beat him to it (John 1:41). 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