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National Catholic Register, Nov 30, / am

St. Andrew, whose feast day is Nov. 30, was one of the two initial disciples of John the Baptist who encountered Jesus at the beginning of John’s Gospel. He was one of Jesus’ closest disciples, but many people know little about him.

St. Andrew was the brother of St. Peter, also known as Simon bar-Jonah. He and Andrew shared the same father, so the latter would have been known as Andrew bar-Jonah.

Andrew is regularly mentioned after Simon Peter, which suggests that he was Peter’s younger brother. Like his brother Peter, and their partners James and John, Andrew was initially a fisherman on the Sea of Galilee.

Here are eight more things to know and share about St. Andrew the Apostle:

1) What does the name Andrew mean?  

The name Andrew (Greek, “Andreas”) is related to the Greek word for “man” (“Aner,” or, in the genitive, “Andros”). It originally meant something like “manly,” expressin