Andrew was a Galilean fisherman and one of the twelve apostles, the brother of Simon Peter and, in John's Gospel, the first of the disciples to follow Jesus and the first to bring another person to him. The church has honoured him ever since as the Protokletos, the First-Called. Tradition sent him north and east as a missionary, into Scythia by the Black Sea and on into Greece, and remembers him crucified at Patras in Achaia. He is the patron of Scotland, Greece, and Russia, and his feast is November 30.