How did the Apostles Die?

[dfp42]

Does anyone have any references in accord to Catholic teaching on how the apostles died?

Thanks

 

[jeanne71350]

Does anyone have any references in accord to Catholic teaching on how the apostles died?

Thanks

I know they were all martyred. Paul was not crucified, he was beheaded because he was a Roman citizen.

-Jeanne

 

[Stylites]

Does anyone have any references in accord to Catholic teaching on how the apostles died?

Thanks

I searched the Internet for an answer to your question, and this link was at the top of the list of results:

agards-bible-timeline.com/q6_apostles_die.html

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[Rolltide]

I know they were all martyred. Paul was not crucified, he was beheaded because he was a Roman citizen.

-Jeanne

Some of my information comes from here:
ccel.org/bible/phillips/CN500APOSTLES%20FATE.htm

Judas Iscariot, of course, committed suicide.

The death of James, the brother of John, is recorded in scripture. Acts 12: 1-2 states that he was “executed with the sword”.

According to John’s Gospel (19:26-27), it was probably John who took Mary, the mother of Jesus as his adopted mother. He preached in Jerusalem, and later, as bishop of Ephesus, south of Izmir in western Turkey, worked among the churches of Asia Minor. During the reigns of either Emperor Nero (AD54-68) or Domitian (AD81-96), he was banished to the nearby island of Patmos, now one of the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. He was subsequently freed and died a natural death at Ephesus c AD100.

Peter may have been executed around AD64 (at the same time as Paul) during the persecutions of Emperor Nero, or later in AD67. Apparently he was crucified, head-down, at his own request. These details come from Holy tradition and several apocryphal works. Later traditions claim that St. Peter’s in Rome was built over his grave.

Claims are that Andrew preached in Achaia (southern Greece) and Scythia (Ukraine and southern Russia - St. Andrew is the patron saint of Russia), and was crucified at Patras in Achaia. A later tradition describes him as being crucified in a spread-eagled position - hence the St. Andrew’s cross of Scotland.

Philip preached the Gospel in Phrygia (west central Turkey) before dying or being martyred there at Hieropolis. This is according to Holy tradition and apocryphal works.

The missionary work of Bartholomew is linked with Armenia (present day Armenia, eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, north western Iran) and India. Other locations include Egypt, Arabia, Ethiopia and Persia (Iran). Traditionally he met his death by being flayed or skinned alive, and then beheaded. Derbent, north of present day Baku on the Caspian Sea may have been his place of martyrdom. Alternatively he may have suffered this cruel fate in what is now India.
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Thomas** may have laboured for the Gospel in Parthia (including modern Iraq and Iran), but stronger traditions link him with southern India. Indian Christians from the west coast Kerala area claim they were evangelized by Thomas, who was later speared to death near Madras on the east coast.

Nothing definite is known of Matthew’s career. After preaching in Judea, different traditions place his missionary work and possible martyrdom in Ethiopia or Persia.

Tradition claims that James the Less first worked in Palestine (Israel) before preaching and martyrdom in Egypt.
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Jude** is also confused in some sources with Jude, one of the brothers of Jesus. He may have preached in Assyria (eastern Iraq) and Persia (Iran), before joining with Simon the Zealot and being killed with him in Persia.

One tradition holds that Simon the Zealot first preached in Egypt, before joining Jude and travelling to Persia, where both were martyred. Simon may have been crucified or hacked to death.

 

[thistle]

I know they were all martyred. Paul was not crucified, he was beheaded because he was a Roman citizen.

-Jeanne

That’s not right. John died a natural death in old age.

 

[puzzleannie]

That’s not right. John died a natural death in old age.

he was tortured under the persecution, but banished, not killed outright and lived tradition tells us to advanced age, when he wrote the Apocolypse.

 

[callmeChris]

Original Twelve picked by Jesus:
-Peter, crucified upside-down in Rome circa AD 64.
–James, son of Zebedee was beheaded in AD 44, first of the twelve to die (since the addition of Matthias)
-John, son of Zebedee, natural causes due to old age, last of the twelve to die, only one of the twelve (or 13 counting both Judas Isacariot and Matthias) to die naturally (as mentioned by Christ at the end of the Gospel of John).
-Andrew, Peter’s brother, was crucified upon a diagonal or X-shaped cross.
-Philip was crucified in AD 54.
-Bartholomew (also known as Nathaniel) was flayed alive (skinned) and then beheaded; some sources locate his death at Derbend on the Caspian Sea.[1]
-Matthew killed by a halberd in AD 60.
-Thomas was killed by a spear in Mylapore, Madras, India in AD 72.
-James, son of Alphaeus, beaten to death with a club after being crucified and stoned.
-Jude was crucified.
-Simon the Zealot was crucified in AD 74.
-Judas Iscariot, according to the gospels, hanged himself after betraying Jesus.
Replacement picked by the surviving eleven:
-Matthias, Judas’ replacement, was stoned and beheaded.