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The Church Fathers · c. 150–200; survives in fragments

The Acts of Andrew

Anonymous

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What it is

The preaching, imprisonment, and crucifixion of Andrew in Patras, framed by long speeches urging converts to withdraw from marriage and the body.

Why it lasted

The most philosophically ascetic of the apocryphal Acts, and the origin of Andrew's association with a distinctive cross.

Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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