Deaths of the Apostles and Other Christian Leaders

JAMES – 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

TITUS – dies on the island of Crete

TIMOTHY – dies at Ephesus by being stoned to death