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St. Andrew St. Catherine Apostol

Protokletos (first call). In the Gospels he is mentioned twice about vocations in the first two apostles and the multiplication of the loaves and fishes. The legend comes from the apocryphal Acts. According to this, after the death of Jesus have been appointed to evangelize the Scythians, ie the present Russia. While he preached in Scythia, there appeared an angel who told him: "Go to Matthew." Was miraculously guided to Ethiopia, where San Mateo had been blinded and thrown into prison. The prison doors were opened to him, knelt before Matthew, began to pray, and to the point of Matthew's eyes opened again to light. His mission accomplished, he came to Greece and then to Asia Minor, where he held a series of miracles. Imprisoned by the Roman proconsul Quirino, governor of Macedonia, who accused him of inciting the destruction of temples and divert the people's worship of the gods, was thrown to the beasts, but they respected him. When he visited the Peloponnese, Patras, healed the wife of proconsul Aegean. But this, accusing it of preaching disobedience to the emperor, he did beat them with sticks and then ordered him bound with ropes to a X-shaped cross (crux decussata ), where he died the third day.

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The most popular attribute of San Andrés is the X-shaped cross, which was renamed St. Andrew's cross. It is also called cross of Burgundy, because in 1433, Duke Philip the Good, having been in Constantinople a fragment of the cross that would have been used in the crucifixion of the apostle in Patras, the flagship became the order of the Golden Fleece This tradition does not rely on text whatsoever. In fact, the Christian art of the Middle Ages hesitated too long before taking the X-shaped cross as an attribute of San Andrés. Until the fifteenth century most of the time he was crucified on a cross is normal. Sometimes used as a second attribute a net full of fish.

The scenes depicted are: his vocation, the expulsion of seven demons in the form of dogs in the city of Nicea, the miracle of the fire smothered in Thessaloniki, flogging, his leadership of martyrdom, the crucifixion, the descent of his body, his burial and a posthumous miracle by which a bishop came to save him from the temptation of the devil. Patronage

was adopted as standard by corporations freshwater fishermen, fishmongers and ropers who provided the rope for fishing nets. It invoked the marriageable women who wanted to find a husband, perhaps because his name (Andros) evoked the idea of \u200b\u200ba Greek man, as San Kálmán (mann) in speaking countries German. As a curator, was invoked against gout, cramps, stiff neck, chilblains and dysentery, which was called San Andrés evil.

In France, he became patron of the ducal house of Burgundy, because he was considered evangelist of Scythia, which carry the Burgundians believed. The battle cry of the Burgundians was Montjoie Saint Andrieu. It also became the patron saint of Greece and Russia.