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Feast day: 30 November
Brother of Simon Peter and a disciple of John the Baptist, Andrew was the first to follow Jesus and immediately brought his brother to him; tradition places his preaching in Greece and his martyrdom on a cross at Patras.
Feast day: 25 July
One of the three apostles closest to Jesus, first of the Twelve to be martyred, and, through the shrine of Compostela, the patron of Christian pilgrimage in the West.
Feast day: 27 December
The disciple who leaned on the Lord's breast at the Last Supper, stood beneath the Cross and received Mary as his mother, and wrote the Fourth Gospel.
Feast day: 21 September
A tax collector at Capernaum who rose from his customs post at a single word of Christ and wrote the Gospel that presents Jesus as the promised Messiah of Israel.
Feast day: 29 June
A persecutor of Christians struck down on the road to Damascus, who became the greatest missionary of the apostolic age and author of thirteen New Testament letters.
Feast day: 29 June
The fisherman Jesus renamed Peter — the rock — who denied his Lord, was forgiven, led the apostles, and was martyred in Rome.
Feast day: 3 July
The apostle who refused to believe without seeing and then made the greatest confession of faith in the Gospels, 'My Lord and my God'; ancient tradition sends him to evangelise India, where a Christian community bears his name to this day.