How the Apostles Died

 
 All of the apostles were insulted by the enemies
of their Master.  They were called to seal their doctrines
with their blood, and nobly did they bear the trial. 

According to oral tradition,
the following was the fate of the apostles:

MATTHEW

   suffered martyrdom by being slain with a sword,  at a distant city of Ethiopia.
     
MARK   expired at Alexandria,
after having been cruelly dragged through the streets of that city.
     
LUKE   was hanged upon an olive tree
in the classic land of Greece.
     
JOHN   was put in a caldron of boiling oil,
but escaped death in a miraculous manner,  and was afterward abandoned at Patmos.
     
PETER   was crucified at Rome,
with his head downward.
     
JAMES
THE LESS		   was thrown from a lofty pinnacle of the Temple, and then beaten to death with a fuller’s club.
     
BARTHOLOMEW    was flayed alive.
     
ANDREW   was bound to a cross, 
whence he preached to his persecutors
until he died.
     
THOMAS   was run through the body with a lance
at Coromandel, in East Indies.
     
JUDE   was shot to death with arrows.
     
MATTHIAS   was first stoned and then beheaded.
     
BARNABAS   of the Gentiles was stoned to death
by the Jews at Salonica.
     
PAUL  

after various tortures and persecutions, was at length  beheaded at Rome  by the Emperor Nero. --