Death of Apostles & Saints

[Lamb]

I started this thread for us to post some of the various ways that the apostles and saints have died.

Peter is known to have died on a cross upside down according to church tradition.

 

[MoreCoffee]

I started this thread for us to post some of the various ways that the apostles and saints have died.

Peter is known to have died on a cross upside down according to church tradition.

Saint Paul (not one of the 12 apostles of the Lord but an apostle nonetheless) was beheaded in Rome according to tradition.

 

[Rens]

They couldn't kill John.

 

[Tigger]

The apostle Andrew was crucified on a structure shaped like a X.

 

[Josiah]

My grandfather died from a heart attack (a complication of diabetes). One of the greatest men, greatest Christians I've ever known. And I still miss him very much.

 

[MoreCoffee]

They couldn't kill John.

It's said he died of old age ... perhaps as a prisoner.

 

[psalms 91]

On the Isle of patmos

 

[MoreCoffee]

On the Isle of patmos

Perhaps. Maybe George can recall the tradition in Greek Orthodox accounts of saint John's last days.