Catholic Heroes . . . St. Andrew
By DEB PIROCH St. Andrew is the “Protokletos” or “First Called.”Andrew means “manly” or “courageous one” and he was an apostle, a martyr, and a brother to St. Peter. Born on the Sea of Galilee and a fisherman like his brother, he was less than 40 kilometers from Nazareth. Jesus would discover the brothers there, along with Philip, and call them to be “fishers of men.”On Andrew’s recent feast day of November 30, Bishop Donald Hying of Madison, Wis., in a YouTube spot pointed out Andrew’s great humility. It was Andrew who brought the knowledge of Christ as the Messiah to his brother, Peter, and then humbly stepped back, not feeling the need to interject himself or assume any importance…Continue Reading