Duodecim Apostoli

Apostle · First-called

Given name

Andrew

Feast day

November 30

Symbols

Saltire (X-shaped) cross · fishing net

Death

Crucified on an X-shaped cross in Patras, Greece, c. AD 60

Brother of Peter and a disciple of John the Baptist, Andrew was the first to follow Jesus and brought his brother to the Lord. He preached the Gospel in Greece and Asia Minor. Tradition holds he was bound to a cross shaped like an X, the saltire, where he preached for two days before dying.

He first found his brother Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah.” (John 1:41)