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Show ST. ANDREW. Holy Mother Church celebrates on next Thursday, Nov. 30, the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle. . St. Andrew was one of the fishermen of Bethsaida, and brother, perhaps elder brother, of St. Peter, and became a disciple of St. John Baptist. He seemed always eager to bring others into notice. When called himself by Christ on . the banks of the Jordan, his first thought was to go in search of his brother, and he said, "We have found the Messias," and he brought him to Jesus. It was he again who, when Christ wished to feed the 5,000 in the desert, pointed out the little lad with the five loaves and iishes. St. Andrew went forth upon his mission to plant the faith . in Scythia and Greece, and at the end of years of toil to win a martyr's crown. After suffering suf-fering a cruel scourging at Patrae in Achaia, he was left, bound bycords, to die upon a cross. When St. Andrew first caught sight of the gibbet on which he was to die, he greeted the precious wood with joy. "Oh, good cross!" he crjed, "made beautiful by the limbs of Christ, so long desired, now so happily found! Receive me into thy arms and present me to my 'Master, that He who redeemed me through thee may now accept me from thee." Two whole days the martyr remained re-mained hanging on this cross alive, preaching witn outstretched arms from this chair of truth to all who came near, and entreating them not to hinder his passion. |
