Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials of Saints
- Andrew the Apostle
- Sapor and Isaac, bishops and martyrs
- Cuthbert Mayne, priest and martyr
St. Andrew the Apostle (1st century A.D.) was one of the first followers of Christ. He led his brother Simon Peter to Christ (John 1:35-42). After Pentecost, he went to Greece and Scythia to spread the Gospel. He was martyred on an X-shaped Cross.
St. Cuthbert Mayne (1543-1577 A.D.) was one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales canonized in the year 1970 A.D. Raised and ordained in the Church of England, he was influenced by Edmund Campion to become a Catholic. In 1575 A.D., he was ordained to the Catholic priesthood at Douai in northern France, and then was later sent back to England to minister to Catholic recusants (those who refused to accept the queen as head of the Church of England). Disguised as a domestic steward in that ministry, he was soon discovered, arrested, tried and executed after refusing to acknowledge the ecclesiastical authority of the queen of England.
November 30 Saints in the Byzantine Calendar
- St. Andrew, the "First-called" Apostle
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- What Happened to the Apostles after Pentecost (Part Two), Learn more
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