Andrew the Apostle - wikipedia Andrew the Apostle `` Saint Andrew '' redirects here. For other uses, see Saint Andrew ( disambiguation ). Andrew the Apostle Saint Andrew the Apostle by Artus Wolffort Apostle 5 B.C Galilee, Roman Empire Mid - to late 1st century Patras, Achaia, Roman Empire Venerated in All of Christianity Canonized Apostolic age by Pre-congregation Major shrine Duomo Cathedral in Amalfi, Italy, St Andrew 's Cathedral, Patras, Greece ; St Mary 's Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland ; the Church of St Andrew and St Albert, Warsaw, Poland. Feast 30 November Attributes Old man with long white hair and beard, holding the Gospel Book or scroll, sometimes leaning on a saltire, fishing net Patronage Scotland, Barbados, Georgia, Ukraine, Russia, Sicily, Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Patras, Burgundy, San Andrés ( Tenerife ), Diocese of Parañaque, Telhado ( pt ), Amalfi, Luqa ( Malta ) and Prussia ; Diocese of Victoria ; fishermen, fishmongers and rope - makers, textile workers, singers, miners, pregnant women, butchers, farm workers, protection against sore throats, protection against convulsions, protection against fever, protection against whooping cough Religion in Scotland Church of Scotland Roman Catholic Church Free Church of Scotland Free Church of Scotland ( Continuing ) United Free Church of Scotland Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland International Presbyterian Church Associated Presbyterian Churches Scottish Episcopal Church Eastern Orthodox Churches Oriental Orthodox Churches Baptist Union of Scotland Methodist Church of Great Britain Latter - day Saints Salvation Army Congregational Federation Action of Churches Together in Scotland Scottish Reformation Bahá'í Faith Buddhism Hinduism Islam Judaism Sikhism Andrew the Apostle ( Greek : Ἀνδρέας ; Coptic : ⲁⲛⲇⲣⲉⲁⲥ, Andreas ; from the early 1st century BC -- mid to late 1st century AD ), also known as Saint Andrew and referred to in the Orthodox tradition as the First - Called ( Greek : Πρωτόκλητος, Prōtoklētos ), was a Christian Apostle and the brother of Saint Peter. The name `` Andrew '' ( Greek : manly, brave, from ἀνδρεία, Andreia, `` manhood, valour '' ), like other Greek names, appears to have been common among the Jews, Christians, and other Hellenized people of Judea. No Hebrew or Aramaic name is recorded for him. According to Orthodox tradition, the apostolic successor to Saint Andrew is the Patriarch of Constantinople. Contents 1 Life 2 The Acts of Andrew 3 Relics 4 Traditions and legends 4.1 Georgia 4.2 Cyprus 4.3 Malta 4.4 Romania 4.5 East Slavs 4.6 Scotland 4.7 Spain 4.8 Occultism 5 Legacy 6 See also 7 Notes 8 References 9 External links Life The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew by Caravaggio Crucifixion of Saint Andrew, by Juan Correa de Vivar ( 1540 -- 1545 ) Saint Andrew was born according to the Christian tradition in 6 B.C in Galilee. The New Testament states that Andrew was the brother of Simon Peter, and likewise a son of John, or Jonah. He was born in the village of Bethsaida on the Sea of Galilee. Both he and his brother Peter were fishermen by trade, hence the tradition that Jesus called them to be his disciples by saying that he will make them `` fishers of men '' ( Greek : ἁλιεῖς ἀνθρώπων, halieis anthrōpōn ). At the beginning of Jesus ' public life, they were said to have occupied the same house at Capernaum. In the Gospel of Matthew ( Matt 4 : 18 -- 22 ) and in the Gospel of Mark ( Mark 1 : 16 -- 20 ) Simon Peter and Andrew were both called together to become disciples of Jesus and `` fishers of men ''. These narratives record that Jesus was walking along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, observed Simon and Andrew fishing, and called them to discipleship. In the parallel incident in the Gospel of Luke ( Luke 5 : 1 -- 11 ) Andrew is not named, nor is reference made to Simon having a brother. In this narrative, Jesus initially used a boat, solely described as being Simon 's, as a platform for preaching to the multitudes on the shore and then as a means to achieving a huge trawl of fish on a night which had hitherto proved fruitless. The narrative indicates that Simon was not the only fisherman in the boat ( they signaled to their partners in the other boat... ( Luke 5 : 7 ) ) but it is not until the next chapter ( Luke 6 : 14 ) that Andrew is named as Simon 's brother. However, it is generally understood that Andrew was fishing with Simon on the night in question. Matthew Poole, in his Annotations on the Holy Bible, stressed that ' Luke denies not that Andrew was there '. In contrast, the Gospel of John ( John 1 : 35 -- 42 ) states that Andrew was a disciple of John the Baptist, whose testimony first led him, and another unnamed disciple of John the Baptist, to follow Jesus. Andrew at once recognized Jesus as the Messiah, and hastened to introduce him to his brother. Thenceforth, the two brothers were disciples of Christ. On a subsequent occasion, prior to the final call to the apostolate, they were called to a closer companionship, and then they left all things to follow Jesus. Subsequently, in the gospels, Andrew is referred to as being present on some important occasions as one of the disciples more closely attached to Jesus. Andrew told Jesus about the boy with the loaves and fishes ( John 6 : 8 ), and when Philip wanted to tell Jesus about certain Greeks seeking Him, he told Andrew first ( John 12 : 20 -- 22 ). Andrew was present at the Last Supper. Andrew was one of the four disciples who came to Jesus on the Mount of Olives to ask about the signs of Jesus ' return at the `` end of the age ''. Eusebius in his Church History 3.1 quoted Origen as saying that Andrew preached in Scythia. The Chronicle of Nestor adds that he preached along the Black Sea and the Dnieper river as far as Kiev, and from there he traveled to Novgorod. Hence, he became a patron saint of Ukraine, Romania and Russia. According to tradition, he founded the See of Byzantium ( later Constantinople and Istanbul ) in AD 38, installing Stachys as bishop. According to Hippolytus of Rome, Andrew preached in Thrace, and his presence in Byzantium is also mentioned in the apocryphal Acts of Andrew. Basil of Seleucia also knew of Apostle Andrew 's missions in Thrace, Scythia and Achaea. This diocese would later develop into the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Andrew, along with Saint Stachys, is recognized as the patron saint of the Patriarchate. Andrew is said to have been martyred by crucifixion at the city of Patras ( Patræ ) in Achaea. Early texts, such as the Acts of Andrew known to Gregory of Tours, describe Andrew as bound, not nailed, to a Latin cross of the kind on which Jesus is said to have been crucified ; yet a tradition developed that Andrew had been crucified on a cross of the form called crux decussata ( X-shaped cross, or `` saltire '' ), now commonly known as a `` Saint Andrew 's Cross '' -- supposedly at his own request, as he deemed himself unworthy to be crucified on the same type of cross as Jesus had been. The iconography of the martyrdom of Andrew -- showing him bound to an X-shaped cross -- does not appear to have been standardized until the later Middle Ages. The Acts of Andrew Main article : Acts of Andrew The apocryphal Acts of Andrew, mentioned by Eusebius, Epiphanius and others, is among a disparate group of Acts of the Apostles that were traditionally attributed to Leucius Charinus. `` These Acts (... ) belong to the third century : ca. A.D. 260, '' in the opinion of M.R. James, who edited them in 1924. The Acts, as well as a Gospel of St Andrew, appear among rejected books in the Decretum Gelasianum connected with the name of Pope Gelasius I. The Acts of Andrew was edited and published by Constantin von Tischendorf in the Acta Apostolorum apocrypha ( Leipzig, 1821 ), putting it for the first time into the hands of a critical professional readership. Another version of the Andrew legend is found in the Passio Andreae, published by Max Bonnet ( Supplementum II Codicis apocryphi, Paris, 1895 ). Relics Saint Andrew of Patras cathedral, where Saint Andrew 's relics are kept Statue of Andrew in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran by Camillo Rusconi Relics of the Apostle Andrew are kept at the Basilica of Saint Andrew in Patras, Greece ; in Amalfi Cathedral ( the Duomo di Sant'Andrea ), Amalfi, Italy ; St Mary 's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland ; and the Church of St Andrew and St Albert, Warsaw, Poland. There are also numerous smaller reliquaries throughout the world. Andrew 's remains were preserved at Patras. According to one legend, Saint Regulus ( Rule ) was a monk at Patras, who was advised in a dream to hide some of the bones. Shortly thereafter, most of the relics were translated from Patras to Constantinople by order of the Roman emperor Constantius II around 357 and deposited in the Church of the Holy Apostles. Regulus was said to have had a second dream in which an angel advised him to take the hidden relics `` to the ends of the earth '' for protection. Wherever he was shipwrecked, he was to build a shrine for them. St. Rule set sail, taking with him a kneecap, an upper arm bone, three fingers and a tooth. He sailed west, towards the edge of the known world, and was shipwrecked on the coast of Fife, Scotland. However, the relics were probably brought to Britain in 597 as part of the Augustine Mission, and then in 732 to Fife, by Bishop Acca of Hexham, a well - known collector of religious relics. The skull of Saint Andrew, which had been taken to Constantinople, was returned to Patras by Emperor Basil I, who ruled from 867 to 886. In 1208, following the sack of Constantinople, those relics of Saint Andrew and Saint Peter which remained in the imperial city were taken to Amalfi, Italy, by Cardinal Peter of Capua, a native of Amalfi. A cathedral ( Duomo ), was built, dedicated to Saint Andrew ( as is the town itself ), to house a tomb in its crypt where it is maintained that most of the relics of the apostle, including an occipital bone, remain. Thomas Palaeologus was the youngest surviving son of Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos. Thomas ruled the province of Morea, the medieval name for the Peloponnese. In 1461, when the Ottomans crossed the Strait of Corinth, Palaeologus fled Patras for exile in Italy, bringing with him what was purported to be the skull of Saint Andrew. He gave the head to Pope Pius II, who had it enshrined in one of the four central piers of St. Peter 's Basilica in the Vatican. In September 1964, Pope Paul VI, as a gesture of goodwill toward the Greek Orthodox Church, ordered that all of the relics of Saint Andrew that were in Vatican City be sent back to Patras. Cardinal Augustin Bea along with many other cardinals presented the skull to Bishop Constantine of Patras on 24 September 1964. The cross of Saint Andrew was taken from Greece during the Crusades by the Duke of Burgundy. It was kept in the church of St. Victor in Marseilles until it returned to Patras on 19 January 1980. The cross of the apostle was presented to the Bishop of Patras Nicodemus by 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 30 November, his feast day. In 2006, the Catholic Church, again through Cardinal Etchegaray, gave the Greek Orthodox Church another relic of Saint Andrew. Traditions and legends Georgia A 13th - century fresco depicting Saint Andrew from Kintsvisi, Georgia. The church tradition of Georgia regards Saint 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. '' The version was adopted by the 10th -- 11th - century Georgian ecclesiastics and, refurbished with more details, was inserted in the Georgian Chronicles. The story of Saint Andrew 's mission in the Georgian lands endowed the Georgian church with apostolic origin and served as a defense argument to George the Hagiorite against the encroachments from the Antiochian church authorities on autocephaly of the Georgian church. Another Georgian monk, Ephraim the Minor, produced a thesis, reconciling Saint Andrew 's story with an earlier evidence of the 4th - century conversion of Georgians by Saint Nino and explaining the necessity of the `` second Christening '' by Nino. The thesis was made canonical by the Georgian church council in 1103. The Georgian Orthodox Church marks two feast days in honor of Saint Andrew, on 12 May and 13 December. The former date, dedicated to Saint Andrew 's arrival in Georgia, is a public holiday in Georgia. 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 century, a small chapel was built close to the shore. The main monastery of the current church dates to the 18th century. Other pilgrimages are more recent. The story is told that in 1895, the son of a Maria Georgiou was kidnapped. Seventeen years later, Saint Andrew appeared to her in a dream, telling her to pray for her son 's return at the monastery. Living in Anatolia, she embarked on the crossing to Cyprus on a very crowded boat. As she was telling her story during the journey, one of the passengers, a young Dervish priest, became more and more interested. Asking if her son had any distinguishing marks, he stripped off his clothes to reveal the same marks and mother and son were thus reunited. Apostolos Andreas Monastery ( Greek : Απόστολος Ανδρέας ) is a monastery dedicated to Saint Andrew situated just south of Cape Apostolos Andreas, which is the north - easternmost point of the island of Cyprus, in Dipkarpaz ( Rizokarpaso ) in the Karpass Peninsula. The monastery is an important site to the Cypriot Orthodox Church. It was once known as ' the Lourdes of Cyprus ', served not by an organized community of monks but by a changing group of volunteer priests and laymen. Both Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities consider the monastery a holy place. As such, it is visited by many people for votive prayers. Malta Fifth - century mosaic of Saint Andrew at St. Paul Outside the Walls, Rome The first reference regards the small chapel at Luqa dedicated to Andrew dates to 1497. This chapel contained three altars, one of them dedicated to Andrew. The painting showing Mary with Saints Andrew and Paul was painted by the Maltese artist Filippo Dingli. At one time, many fishermen lived in the village of Luqa, and this may be the main reason for choosing Andrew as patron saint. The statue of Andrew was sculpted in wood by Giuseppe Scolaro in 1779. This statue underwent several restoration works including that of 1913 performed by the Maltese artist Abraham Gatt. The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew on the main altar of the church was painted by Mattia Preti in 1687. Romania Entrance to Saint Andrew 's caves near Ion Corvin, Constanța County Main article : Saint Andrew in Romania The official stance of the Romanian Orthodox Church is that Andrew preached the Gospel in the province of Dobruja ( Scythia Minor ) to the Daco - Romans, whom he is said to have converted to Christianity. Such a tradition was however not widely acknowledged until the 20th century. According to Hippolyte of Antioch, ( died c. 250 C.E. ) in his On Apostles, Origen in the third book of his Commentaries on the Genesis ( 254 C.E. ), Eusebius of Caesarea in his Church History ( 340 C.E. ), and other sources, such as Usaard 's Martyrdom written between 845 -- 865, and Jacobus de Voragine 's Golden Legend ( c. 1260 ), Saint Andrew preached in Scythia, a possible reference to Scythia Minor, whose territory was integrated into Romania in the late 19th century. According to some modern Romanian scholars, the idea of early Christianisation is unsustainable. They take the idea to be a part of an ideology of protochronism which purports that the Orthodox Church has been a companion and defender of the Romanian people for its entire history, which was then used for propaganda purposes during the communist era, although this is disputed. East slavs Saint Andrew 's prophecy of Kiev depicted in Radzivill Chronicle. Tradition regarding the early Christian history of Ukraine holds that the apostle Andrew preached on the southern borders of modern - day Ukraine, along the Black Sea. Legend has it that he travelled up the Dnieper River and reached the future location of Kiev, where he erected a cross on the site where the Saint Andrew 's Church of Kiev currently stands, and where he prophesied the foundation of a great Christian city. Because of this connection to Kiev, Saint Andrew is considered to be the patron saint of the two East Slavic nations descended from the Kievan Rus : Ukraine and Russia, the latter country using the Saint Andrew 's Cross on its naval ensign. The third East Slavic nation, Belarus, however, reveres Euphrosyne of Polotsk, a local saint, as its patron instead. Scotland The Saltire ( or `` Saint Andrew 's Cross '' ) is the national flag of Scotland Several legends state that the relics of Andrew were brought by divine guidance from Constantinople to the place where the modern Scottish town of St Andrews stands today ( Gaelic, Cill Rìmhinn ). The oldest surviving manuscripts are two : one is among the manuscripts collected by Jean - Baptiste Colbert and willed to Louis XIV of France, now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, the other is the Harleian Mss in the British Library, London. They state that the relics of Andrew were brought by one Regulus to the Pictish king Óengus mac Fergusa ( 729 -- 761 ). The only historical Regulus ( Riagail or Rule ) whose name is preserved in the tower of St Rule was an Irish monk expelled from Ireland with Saint Columba ; his dates, however, are c. 573 -- 600. There are good reasons for supposing that the relics were originally in the collection of Acca, bishop of Hexham, who took them into Pictish country when he was driven from Hexham ( c. 732 ), and founded a see, not, according to tradition, in Galloway, but on the site of St Andrews. Saint Andrew, carving c. 1500 in the National Museum of Scotland According to legend, in 832 AD, Óengus II led an army of Picts and Scots into battle against the Angles, led by Æthelstan, near modern - day Athelstaneford, East Lothian. The legend states that he was heavily outnumbered and hence whilst engaged in prayer on the eve of battle, Óengus vowed that if granted victory he would appoint Saint Andrew as the Patron Saint of Scotland. On the morning of battle white clouds forming an X shape in the sky were said to have appeared. Óengus and his combined force, emboldened by this apparent divine intervention, took to the field and despite being inferior in numbers were victorious. Having interpreted the cloud phenomenon as representing the crux decussata upon which Saint Andrew was crucified, Óengus honoured his pre-battle pledge and duly appointed Saint Andrew as the Patron Saint of Scotland. The white saltire set against a celestial blue background is said to have been adopted as the design of the flag of Scotland on the basis of this legend. However, there is evidence that Andrew was venerated in Scotland before this. Traditional stone fireplace in northern England. The carved Saint Andrew 's cross in the left hand wooden post was to prevent witches from flying down the chimney, Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton - le - Hole. Andrew 's connection with Scotland may have been reinforced following the Synod of Whitby, when the Celtic Church felt that Columba had been `` outranked '' by Peter and that Peter 's brother would make a higher ranking patron. The 1320 Declaration of Arbroath cites Scotland 's conversion to Christianity by Andrew, `` the first to be an Apostle ''. Numerous parish churches in the Church of Scotland and congregations of other Christian churches in Scotland are named after Andrew. The national church of the Scottish people in Rome, Sant'Andrea degli Scozzesi is dedicated to Saint Andrew. A local superstition uses the cross of Saint Andrew as a hex sign on the fireplaces in northern England and Scotland to prevent witches from flying down the chimney and entering the house to do mischief. By placing the Saint Andrew 's cross on one of the fireplace posts or lintels, witches are prevented from entering through this opening. In this case, it is similar to the use of a witch ball, although the cross will actively prevent witches from entering, and the witch ball will passively delay or entice the witch, and perhaps entrap it. Spain A form of St. Andrew 's cross called the Cross of Bourgogne was used as the flag of the Duchy of Burgandy, and after the Duchy was acquired by Spain, by the Spanish Crown, and later as a Spanish naval flag and finally as an army battle flag up until 1843. Today, it is still a part of various Spanish military insignia & makes part of the Coat of Arms of the king of Spain as it did with General Franco. Monument to Andrey Pervozvanniy in Kyiv, Ukraine. The authors are Boris Krylov and Oles Sydoruk. In Spain, Saint Andrew is the patron of several locations : San Andrés ( Santa Cruz de Tenerife ), San Andrés y Sauces ( La Palma ), Navalmoral de la Mata ( Cáceres ), Éibar ( Guipúzcoa ), Baeza ( Jaén ), Pobladura de Pelayo García and Pobladura de Yuso ( León ), Berlangas de Roa ( Burgos ), Ligüerzana ( Palencia ), Castillo de Bayuela ( Toledo ), Almoradí ( Alicante ), Estella ( Navarra ), San Andrés de Palomar ( Barcelona ), Adamuz ( Córdoba ) and San Andrés ( es ) in Cameros ( La Rioja ). Occultism In the Western Esoteric tradition, Andrew is associated with the astrological sign of Virgo. Legacy Saint Andrew the Apostle by Yoan from Gabrovo, 19th century Andrew is the patron saint of several countries and cities including : Barbados, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Ukraine, Amalfi in Italy, Esgueira in Portugal, Luqa in Malta, Parañaque in the Philippines and Patras in Greece. He was also the patron saint of Prussia and of the Order of the Golden Fleece. He is considered the founder and the first bishop of the Church of Byzantium and is consequently the patron saint of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. The flag of Scotland ( and consequently the Union Flag and those of some of the former colonies of the British Empire ) feature Saint Andrew 's saltire cross. The saltire is also the flag of Tenerife, the former flag of Galicia and the Russian Navy Ensign. The Confederate flag also features a saltire commonly referred to as a St Andrew 's cross, although its designer, William Porcher Miles, said he changed it from an upright cross to a saltire so that it would not be a religious symbol but merely a heraldic device. The Alabama flag also shows that device. The feast of Andrew is observed on 30 November in both the Eastern and Western churches, and is the national day of Scotland. In the traditional liturgical books of the Catholic Church, the feast of Saint Andrew is the first feast day in the Proper of Saints. See also Christianity portal Biography portal Book : Apostle ( Christian ) Order of Saint Andrew Patron saints of places Saltire -- the X-shaped cross in heraldry and vexillology Santo André -- an industrial town in Brazil St. Andrew 's College, an all - boys independent school in Ontario, Canada named after St. Andrew. On the driveway to the main building, there is the Saint Andrew statue St. Andrew 's Cross ( disambiguation ) Saint Andrew 's Day Universidad de San Andrés -- Argentina, named after the saint University of St Andrews -- named after the Royal Burgh of St Andrews, which was named after the saint Cross of Saint Peter St. Andrew 's School Parañaque Notes Jump up ^ `` St Andrew ''. Jump up ^ Apostolic Succession of the Great Church of Christ, Ecumenical Patriarchate, archived from the original on 19 July 2014, retrieved 2 August 2014 Jump up ^ Butler, Alban. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints, Vol. III Jump up ^ Metzger & Coogan ( 1993 ) Oxford Companion to the Bible, p 27. Jump up ^ Matthew Poole 's Commentary on Luke 5, accessed 19 February 2017 ^ Jump up to : `` National Shrine of St Andrew in Edinburgh Scotland ''. Stmaryscathedral.co.uk. Retrieved 30 November 2017. Jump up ^ Mark 13 : 3 ; John 6 : 8, 12 : 22 ; but in Acts of the Apostles there is only one mention of him. 1 : 13 ^ Jump up to : `` MacRory, Joseph. `` St. Andrew. '' The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York : Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 29 Oct. 2012 ``. Newadvent.org. 1 March 1907. Retrieved 6 September 2013. Jump up ^ Mark 13 : 30 ) Jump up ^ Ferguson, Everett. Encyclopedia of early Christianity, p. 51. Jump up ^ `` Home -- The Ecumenical Patriarchate ''. Jump up ^ In Monumenta Germaniae Historica II, cols. 821 -- 847, translated in M.R. James, The Apocryphal New Testament ( Oxford ) reprinted 1963 : 369. Jump up ^ The legends surrounding Andrew are discussed in F. Dvornik, `` The Idea of Apostolicity in Byzantium and the Legend of the Apostle Andrew '', Dumbarton Oaks Studies, IV ( Cambridge ) 1958. Jump up ^ Judith Calvert, `` The Iconography of the St. Andrew Auckland Cross '', The Art Bulletin 66. 4 ( December 1984 : 543 -- 555 ) p. 545, note 12 ; according to Louis Réau, Iconographie de l'art chrétien III. 1 ( Paris ) 1958 : 79, St. Andrew 's Cross appeared for the first time in the tenth century, but did not become an iconographic standard before the seventeenth. Calvert was unable to find a sculptural representation of Andrew on the saltire cross earlier than an architectural capital from Quercy, of the early twelfth century. Jump up ^ Christodoulou, Alexandros. `` St. Andrew, Christ 's First - Called Disciple '', Pemptousia Archived 17 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ National Archives of Scotland ( 23 November 2011 ). `` St. Andrew in the National Archives of Scotland ''. Nas.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 16 September 2013. Retrieved 6 September 2013. Jump up ^ `` Η ΤΙΜΙΑ ΚΑΡΑ ΤΟΥ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΟΥ ΑΝΔΡΕΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΠΡΩΤΟΚΛΗΤΟΥ ''. Jump up ^ `` La croix de Saint André ''. Vexil.prov.free.fr. Retrieved 6 September 2013. Jump up ^ Charlotte Denoël. Saint André : culte et iconographie en France ( Ve - XVe siècles ). Paris : École nationale des chartes, 2004 Jump up ^ `` Abbaye Saint - Victor de Marseille, monuments historiques en France ( in French ) ''. Monumentshistoriques.free.fr. Retrieved 6 September 2013. Jump up ^ Relic of St. Andrew Given to Greek Orthodox Church. Zenit News Agency ( via Zenit.org ). Published : 27 February 2006. Jump up ^ Peterson, Peter Megill ( 1958 ), Andrew, Brother of Simon Peter : His History and Legends, p. 20. E.J. Brill Jump up ^ Rapp, Stephen H. ( 2003 ), Studies in Medieval Georgian Historiography : Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts, p. 433. Peeters Publishers, ISBN 90 - 429 - 1318 - 5 Jump up ^ Djobadze, Wachtang Z., `` Materials for the Study of Georgian Monasteries in the Western Environs of Antioch on the Orontes '', pp. 82 -- 83. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vol. 372, subsidia 48. Louvain, 1976. Jump up ^ `` Apostolos Andreas Monastery, Karpaz, North Cyprus ''. Whatson-northcyprus.com. Retrieved 13 August 2012. Jump up ^ Stan, Lavinia and Turcescu, Lucian. Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. 48 Jump up ^ Lytvynchuk, Janna. St. Andrew 's Church, p. 7, Kiev : Anateya, 2006, ISBN 966 - 8668 - 22 - 7 Jump up ^ Parker Lawson, John ( 1848 ). History of the Abbey and Palace of Holyroodhouse. p. 169. Jump up ^ `` Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa : Occult Philosophy. Book II. ( part 2 ) ''. www.esotericarchives.com. Retrieved 2017 - 09 - 05. References Metzger, Bruce M. ; Michael D. Coogan, eds. ( 1993 ). The Oxford Companion to the Bible. Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press. ISBN 0 - 19 - 504645 - 5. Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints. 3rd edition. New York : Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0 - 14 - 051312 - 4. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Saint Andrew. 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Question: who was crucified on an x shaped cross
Answer: Andrew