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ANDREW<br />

cave in Dobruja (located in the vicinity of the Ion Corvin village). St.<br />

<strong>Andrew</strong>’s cave is still kept as a holy place. Later, John Cassian (360-435),<br />

Dionysius Exiguus (470-574) and Joannes Maxentius (leader of the socalled<br />

Scythian Monks) lived in the same area known as Scythia Minor or<br />

Dobruja, in South East Romania.<br />

Ukraine, Romania, and Russia<br />

Early Christian History in Ukraine holds that the apostle <strong>Andrew</strong> is said to<br />

have preached on the southern borders of modern-day Ukraine, along the<br />

Black Sea. Legend has it that he travelled up the Dnieper River and<br />

reached the future location of Kiev, where he erected a cross on the site<br />

where the St. <strong>Andrew</strong>'s Church of Kiev currently stands, and prophesied<br />

the foundation of a great Christian city, Jerusalem of the<br />

Russian/Ukrainian land.<br />

Scotland<br />

The monument in Kiev<br />

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