On the day of 30 November
The feast of Saint Andrew, Apostle, born in Bethsaida, brother of Simon Peter and with him a fisherman, who, having been the first of the disciples of John the Baptist called by the Lord Jesus near the Jordan, followed him and also led his brother to him; after Pentecost he is said to have preached the Gospel in Achaia and to have been affixed to a cross near Patrae. The Church of Constantinople venerates him as her special guardian.
