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Andrew
was born in Galilee and lived in the first century. He was the
youngest of the twelve Apostles. He and his brother Simon worked
for their father, Jonah, as fishermen. Andrew was a disciple
of John the Baptist until Jesus came on the scene. After a spending
a couple of hours in His company Andrew was convinced that Jesus
was, in fact, the Son of God and he abandoned the Baptist. Andrew
then brought Simon to Jesus, who changed his brothers name to
Peter. The siblings maintained their respective families, continued
working for their father, and went to see Jesus whenever time
allowed. But soon Jesus asked them to put up their rods and
become “fishers of men.” He cured people’s
vision and struck others blind, and caused an earthquake that
killed a woman who unjustly accused her son of incest. When
Andrew converted the wife of the pagan Governor, she proceeded
to deny her husband intimate pleasures. The frustrated man flogged
the ApostIe seven times and then sentenced him to die, bound
to an X-shaped cross. Andrew lived for two more days, continually
preaching. Luther tells of an old German tradition in which
young women ran around naked on Andrews feast day with the hopes
of having a vision of their husbands-to-be. In modern-day Poland,
on the eve of his feast day, girls hold black cats over an open
fire for the same purpose. Andrew is also the patron of Greece,
Russia, Scotland, sailors and spinster; and he's invoked against
gout and neck problems. His feast day is November 30. |
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