Peter & Andrew

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a Catholic delegation led by Cardinal Roger Etchegaray. All the relics,
which consist of the small finger, the skull (part of the top of the cranium of
Saint Andrew), and the cross on which he was martyred, have been kept
in the Church of St Andrew at Patras in a special shrine and are revered in
a special ceremony every November 30, his feast day.
In 1208, following the sack of Constantinople, those relics of St Andrew
and St Peter which remained in the imperial city were taken to Amalfi,
Italy, by Cardinal Peter of Capua, a native of Amalfi. The Amalfi cathedral
(Duomo), dedicated to St Andrew (as is the town itself), contains a tomb in
its crypt that it maintains still contains the rest of the relics of the apostle.
On 8 May 2008 the relic believed to be Andrew's head was returned to
Amalfi Cathedral.
Traditions and legends
Georgia
The church tradition of Georgia regards St. Andrew as the first preacher of
Christianity in the territory of Georgia and as the founder of the Georgian
church. This tradition was apparently derived from the Byzantine sources,
particularly Nicetas of Paphlagonia (died c. 890) who asserts that "Andrew
preached to the Iberians, Sauromatians, Taurians, and Scythians and to
every region and city, on the Black Sea, both north and south."
Cyprus
Cypriot tradition holds that a ship which was transporting Saint Andrew
went off course and ran aground. Upon coming ashore, Andrew struck the
rocks with his staff at which point a spring of healing waters gushed forth.
Using it, the sight of the ship's captain, who had been blind in one eye,
was restored. Thereafter, the site became a place of pilgrimage and a
fortified monastery stood there in the 12th century, from which Isaac
Comnenus negotiated his surrender to Richard the Lionheart. In the 15th
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