<P> Subsequently, in the gospels, Andrew is referred to as being present on some important occasions as one of the disciples more closely attached to Jesus . Andrew told Jesus about the boy with the loaves and fishes (John 6: 8), and when Philip wanted to tell Jesus about certain Greeks seeking Him, he told Andrew first (John 12: 20--22). Andrew was present at the Last Supper . Andrew was one of the four disciples who came to Jesus on the Mount of Olives to ask about the signs of Jesus' return at the "end of the age". </P> <P> Eusebius in his Church History 3.1 quoted Origen as saying that Andrew preached in Scythia . The Chronicle of Nestor adds that he preached along the Black Sea and the Dnieper river as far as Kiev, and from there he traveled to Novgorod . Hence, he became a patron saint of Ukraine, Romania and Russia . According to tradition, he founded the See of Byzantium (later Constantinople and Istanbul) in AD 38, installing Stachys as bishop . According to Hippolytus of Rome, Andrew preached in Thrace, and his presence in Byzantium is also mentioned in the apocryphal Acts of Andrew . Basil of Seleucia also knew of Apostle Andrew's missions in Thrace, Scythia and Achaea . This diocese would later develop into the Patriarchate of Constantinople . Andrew, along with Saint Stachys, is recognized as the patron saint of the Patriarchate . </P> <P> Andrew is said to have been martyred by crucifixion at the city of Patras (Patræ) in Achaea . Early texts, such as the Acts of Andrew known to Gregory of Tours, describe Andrew as bound, not nailed, to a Latin cross of the kind on which Jesus is said to have been crucified; yet a tradition developed that Andrew had been crucified on a cross of the form called crux decussata (X-shaped cross, or "saltire"), now commonly known as a "Saint Andrew's Cross"--supposedly at his own request, as he deemed himself unworthy to be crucified on the same type of cross as Jesus had been . The iconography of the martyrdom of Andrew--showing him bound to an X-shaped cross--does not appear to have been standardized until the later Middle Ages . </P> <P> The apocryphal Acts of Andrew, mentioned by Eusebius, Epiphanius and others, is among a disparate group of Acts of the Apostles that were traditionally attributed to Leucius Charinus . "These Acts (...) belong to the third century: ca . A.D. 260," in the opinion of M.R. James, who edited them in 1924 . The Acts, as well as a Gospel of St Andrew, appear among rejected books in the Decretum Gelasianum connected with the name of Pope Gelasius I . The Acts of Andrew was edited and published by Constantin von Tischendorf in the Acta Apostolorum apocrypha (Leipzig, 1821), putting it for the first time into the hands of a critical professional readership . Another version of the Andrew legend is found in the Passio Andreae, published by Max Bonnet (Supplementum II Codicis apocryphi, Paris, 1895). </P>

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