Today we celebrate, my beloved, the memory of St. Andrew the First-Called. He has been given that name because he was the first to be called by Jesus Christ to be an Apostle. It happened like this: ...

St. David is patron saint of Wales, St. Patrick of Ireland, St. George of England and St. Andrew of Scotland. The Apostle Andrew St. Andrew is mentioned in all four Gospel accounts and in Acts.

RTE: Tell us now about St. Andrew himself. What have you learned about him? Apostle Andrew, mosaic. GEORGE: If you compare the traditions from Kurdistan, Valaamo, Ethiopia and Persia, you see the same ...

this cross is also the symbol of Saint Andrew. Let us praise the namesake of bravery, the divinely eloquent and first to be called of the Disciples of Christ, the kinsman of Peter. As he called out to ...

The apostle Andrew was martyred. He died nailed to a cross. His desire to be identified with Christ was so great that when he was being led toward the place of his martyrdom, and saw his own cross ...