St. Andrew
Commemorated August 19
- Feast day
- August 19
- Origin
- Cilicia
About the saint
In Cilicia, the birthday of St. Andrew, tribune, and his military companions, who were converted to Christianity through a miraculous victory they had gained over the Persians. Being accused on this account, they were massacred in the defiles of Mount Taurus by the army of the governor Seleueus, under the emperor Maximian.
