Apostle Andrew is one of the 12 apostles in biblical mythology. Peter’s brother, entered into the community of the disciples of John the Baptist, until Jesus Christ called him to be one of the first among the apostles.
He preached Christianity to the Balkan and Black Sea peoples, in particular, the Scythians, for which he was crucified by order of the Roman magistrate in the Greek city of Patras on the cross, which had the shape of the letter X.
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