St.
Andrew is
the first recorded disciple of Our Lord, and in some sense His first
Evangelist, as bringing to Him his own greater brother, St. Peter (John i. 40, 41). In the Gospel narrative St.
Andrew is noted in association with the chosen Three, at the class at Galilee (Matt. iv. 19), and on occasion of Our
Lord's prediction of the fall of Jerusalem (Mark xiii. 3); and in association with
Philip, his fellow-townsman, in the first call in Judæ (John i. 40), at the feeding of the five
thousand (John vi. 8), and at the coming of the
Greeks to Our Lord in the Holy Week (John xii. 22). Of his special character
and work Scripture records nothing. Tradition tells us of his preaching in
various quarters, and of his crucifixion at Patræ in Greece, on a cross of the
form which now bears St. Andrew's name. -- November 30th.
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