Apostles

THE APOSTLES : M.M.NINAN
appearance of the risen Christ to His disciples, the sending of Andrew to Lydia and his conversion
of the people there.
(2) The "Preaching of Matthias in the City of the Cannibals" (Budge, II, 267 ff; REH, 666) tells of
how Matthias, on being imprisoned and blinded by the Cannibals, was released by Andrew, who
had been brought to his assistance in a ship by Christ, but the two were afterward again
imprisoned. Matthias then caused the city to be inundated, the disciples were set free, and the
people converted.
(3) "The Acts of Andrew and Bartholomew" (Budge, II, 183 ff) gives an account of their mission
among the Parthians.
(4) According to the "Martyrdom of Andrew" (Budge, II, 215) he was stoned and crucified in
Scythia.
According to the surviving fragments of "The Acts of Andrew," a heretical work dating probably from
the 2nd century, and referred to by Eusebius (Historia Ecclesiastica, III, ii, 5), the scene of
Andrew's death was laid in Achaia. There he was imprisoned and crucified by order of the
proconsul Eges (or Aegeates), whose wife had been estranged from him by the preaching of
Andrew (compare Hennecke, 459-73; Pick, Apocryphal Acts, 201-21; Lipsius, I, 543-622). A
so-called "Gospel of Andrew" mentioned by Innocent I (Ep, I, iii, 7) and Augustine (Contra Advers.
Leg. et Prophet., I, 20), but this is probably due to a confusion with the above-mentioned "Acts of
Andrew."
St. Andrew in Patras
- Martyrdom
" In the city of Patras, he performed many miracles. Among the new faithful were the brother and
wife of the Proconsul Aegeates. Angered at this, Aegeates subjected St. Andrew to torture and