Feast 30 November
First-called of the apostles. Brother of Peter. Crucified on an X-shaped cross.
Sacred art
The portrait kept with St. Andrew is the image this library has of Andrew. The honour goes to the person, and through the person to God. It is not a machine, and it is not a substitute for the life written below.
A fisherman of Bethsaida. Patron of Scotland and of Russia. The Church’s memory of him is older than most kingdoms.
If it belongs to Andrew, it is here, with a door back into the story.
Chiquinquirá, BoyacáPainting renewed 26 December 1586
A painting of Our Lady, ruined by damp in a poor chapel, is said to have cleared and shone on 26 December 1586 while a woman prayed. Colombia’s national shrine stands on that hour. The renewal is a local tradition the Church has crowned, not a laboratory of pigment.
Jesuit church, WarsawMartyred 1657; found intact 1730
A Jesuit missionary, tortured and killed in Janów. Seventy-three years later the body is found incorrupt, the wounds still visible. The relic has been kidnapped by history — Pinsk, Polotsk, Moscow, Rome, Warsaw — and is home again.
