Originally a Disciple of John the Baptist he was urged to seek Jesus and once he was convinced that he had discovered the new Messiah, he quickly drew others including his brother Peter into the fold.

It is known that Andrew never married and lived with his brother's family in his younger years.

It is at the Feeding of the Five Thousand that the Gospels talk most about Andrew. The Gospels of Matthew, Mark and John all talk of Andrew going into the crowd and reappearing with a small boy who had only five barley loaves and a couple of fish saying to Jesus, "This is all I could find, Master... What are five loaves and two fishes among so many thousands?"

Andrew is barely mentioned again in the New Testament and there is only meagre information about the remainder of his life until his death in AD69.

The writer Eusebius mentions that he worked amongst the Scythians who lived on the northern and eastern shores of the Black Sea, a region at that time outside the boundaries of the Roman Empire.

In the early AD50s various traditions mention that he preached in Armenia and from there to he moved westwards through Asia Minor, before finally crossing into Greece and preaching in the cities of Perinthus, Philippi & Thessalonica.

His arrival and ministry in the Greek city Patrae is recorded as fact in several sources and historians generally concur that the city of Patrae was his base for the remainder of his life.

One of the more famous of the myths surrounding Andrew at this time is the story that he was arrested in the Greek city Philippi when Nero began his persecution of the Christians. He was thrown to the lions and then escaped death because the lions refused to attack him.

The kindness of animals, though, did not save him from the cruelty of man and in AD69 he was ordered to be crucified by the governer of Patrae who was horrified that Andrew had healed and converted his wife and then converted his brother to Christianity.

Andrew was named the Patron Saint of Russia by the Russian Orthodox Church and in AD750 Hungus, King of Picts (now Scotland) was about to do battle with the English when, the night before the battle, he dreamed that Andrew would bring him victory. The next day above Hungus' camp there was seen, according to legend, a shining cross in the sky shaped like an "X". The Picts advanced into battle shouting, "St Andrew, our patron, be our guide." - and won. Ever since, St Andrew has also been known as the Patron Saint of the Scots.

Andrew is represented by the X-shaped cross on which he was crucified.

According to tradition Andrew, was buried in Amalfi or Naples.

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