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Deaths of the Apostles
Published on: Feb. 22, 2009JAMES - April 44, beheaded by King Herod
JAMES - (Jesus' half-brother), thrown from temple, clubbed to death 66 AD
PAUL & PETER - 67 AD - Paul is beheaded in Rome during reign of Nero
- Peter is crucified upside down
ANDREW - 68 AD - crucified in Patras Greece on an "x" shaped cross LUKE - crucified with ANDREW
JOHN MARK - 68 AD - dragged by horses with a rope around his neck until death
PHILIP - cruelly tortured to death in Asia Minor
MATTHEW - speared to death in Nadabah , Ethiopia
MATTHIAS - burned to death in Syria
THOMAS - stabbed to death in Mylapore , India in 72 AD
BARNABUS - martyred in Salamis, Cyprus in 73 AD
SIMON <& JUDAS - torn apart by a Persian mob in 79 AD
JAMES ( son of Alphaeus ) stoned to death by Jews at age 94
TTTUS - dies on the island of Crete
TIMOTHY - dies at Ephesus by being stoned to death
