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See also:ANDREW (Gr. 'AvBp4as, manly)
, the See also:Christian Apostle, See also:brother of See also:Simon See also:Peter, was See also:born at Bethsaida on the See also:Lake of See also:Galilee
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He had been a See also:disciple of See also: He is said to have suffered crucifixion at See also:Patras (Patrae) in See also:Achaea, on a See also:cross of the See also:form called Crux decussata (X) and commonly known as " St See also:Andrew's cross." According to tradition his See also:relics were removed from Patras to See also:Constantinople, and thence to St See also:Andrews (see below) . The apocryphal See also:book, The Acts of Andrew, mentioned by See also:Eusebius, See also:Epiphanius and others, is generally attributed to Leucius the Gnostic . It was edited and published by C . See also:Tischendorf in the Ada Apostolorum apocrypha (See also:Leipzig, 1821) . This book, as well as a Gospel of St Andrew, was declared apocryphal by a See also:decree of See also:Pope See also:Gelasius . Another version of the Andrew See also:legend is found in the Passio Andreae, published by Max See also:Bonnet (Supplementum II Codicis apocryphi, See also:Paris, 1895) . On this was founded an Anglo-Saxon poem (" Andreas and Elene," first published by J . See also:Grimm, 1841; cf . C . W . See also:Goodwin, The Anglo-Saxon Legends of S . Andreas and S .
See also:Veronica, 1851)
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The festival of St Andrew is held on the 3oth of See also:November
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See APoe RYPHAL LITERATURE; also See also:Lipsius, See also:Die apokryphen Apostelgeschichten vnd Apostellegenden, vol. i
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(1883), and See also:Hastings' See also:Dictionary of the See also:Bible, s.v
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Scottish Legends.—About the See also:middle of the 8th See also:century Andrew became the patron saint of See also:Scotland
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Concerning this there are several legends which See also:state that the relics of Andrew were brought under supernatural guidance from Constantinople to the See also:place where the See also:modern St Andrews stands (Pictish, Muckross; Gaelic, Kilrymont)
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The See also:oldest stories (preserved in the Colbertine See also:MSS., Paris, and the Harleian MSS. in the See also:British Museum) state that the relics were brought by one See also:Regulus to the Pictish See also:
The connexion with Regulus is, therefore, due in all See also:probability to the See also:desire to date the See also:foundation of the See also: |
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