ANDREW (St), the apostle, born at Bethsaida in Galilee, brother to Simon Peter. He had been a disciple of John the baptist, and followed Jesus upon the testimony given of him by the baptist, (John i. 30, 37, &c.) He followed our Saviour with another of John's disciples, and went into the house where Jesus lodged; here he continued from about four o'clock in the afternoon till it was night. This was the first disciple whom our Saviour received into his train. Andrew introduced his brother Simon, and they passed a day with
Andrew, with Christ, after which they went to the marriage in
Andrew's Cana (id. ii.), and at last returned to their ordinary
occupation. Some months after, Jesus meeting them
while they were both fishing together, called them to
him, and promised to make them fishers of men. Im-
mediately they left their nets, followed him, (Matt. iv.
19.) and never afterwards separated from him.
After our Saviour's ascension, his apostles having
determined by lot what parts of the world they should
severally take, Syria and the neighbouring countries
fell to St Andrew, who according to Eusebius, after
he had planted the gospel in several places, came to
Patre in Achaia, where, endeavouring to convert the
proconsul Aegaeas, he was by that governor's orders
scourged, and then crucified. The particular time of
his suffering martyrdom is not known; but all the an-
cients and modern martyrologies, both of the Greeks
and Latins, agree in celebrating his festival upon the 30th
of November. His body was embalmed, and decently
interred at Patre by Maximilla, a lady of great quali-
ty and estate. Afterwards it was removed to Constan-
tinople by Constantine the Great, and buried in the
great church, which he had built to the honour of the
apostles. There is a cross to be seen at this day in the
church of St Victor at Marcellis, which is believed by
the Romanists to be the same that St Andrew was fa-
stened to. It is in the shape of the letter X, and is in-
closed in a silver shrine. Peter Chrysologus says, that he
was crucified upon a tree; and the spurious Hippoly-
tus assures us it was an olive-tree.