{"id":55796,"date":"2025-11-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/?p=55796"},"modified":"2025-11-30T00:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T22:20:26","slug":"saint-andrew-the-apostle-patron-saint-of-the-ecumenical-patriarchate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/foco\/san-andres-apostol-patrono-del-patriarcado-ecumenico\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Andrew the Apostle, patron saint of the Ecumenical Patriarchate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have found the Messiah\u2014which means Christ\u2014and he brought him to Jesus...\u201d These are the words of Andrew in the Gospel of John (Jn 1:35 ff.), when he runs to meet his brother Simon, who would become the first Pope, to tell him that they have seen the Savior. This passage from the Gospel is often referred to in the New Testament as \u2018the calling of the first disciples.\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly before, the apostle Saint John recounts the first conversation between Andrew and another disciple with Jesus, who asks them, \u201cWhat are you looking for?\u201d And they say to him, \"Rabbi, where do you live?\" He replied, \"Come and see.\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fisherman from Bethsaida in Galilee and disciple of John the Baptist, the evangelist's account records the moment when Saint Andrew, the first to receive the call, met Jesus. It was a moment that would mark his life forever. \u201cSo they went, saw where he was staying, and stayed with him that day; it was about the tenth hour.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Patron in Romania, Ukraine, and Russia<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christian writers from the early centuries report that the apostle evangelized Asia Minor and the regions bordering the Black Sea, reaching as far as the Volga. Today he is honored as a patron saint in Romania, Ukraine, and Russia, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/es\/santos\/11\/30\/s--andres--apostol.html\">saint's day<\/a> Vatican.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The preaching of the Gospel continues in Acacia and, around the year 60, in Patras. <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andr%C3%A9s_el_Ap%C3%B3stol\">Saint Andrew<\/a> He faces martyrdom hanging on a cross that he wanted to be X-shaped, evoking the Greek initial of Christ's name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Pope congratulates the Ecumenical Patriarchate<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday, in St. George's Cathedral, alongside Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I, Pope Leo recalled in Turkey that the previous day had been marked by extraordinary moments of grace, commemorating the 1700th anniversary of the first Ecumenical Council of Nicaea.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Driven by this desire for unity, he said, \u201cwe are also preparing to celebrate the memory of the Apostle Andrew, patron saint of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. (...) Once again, I am grateful for the fraternal welcome and would like to extend to His Holiness and to all those present my most heartfelt congratulations on the feast day of your patron saint.\u201d.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHemos encontrado al Mes\u00edas -que significa Cristo-. Y lo llev\u00f3 a Jes\u00fas\u2026\u201d. Son las palabras de Andr\u00e9s en el Evangelio de Juan ( Jn, 1, 35 y ss),\u00a0 cuando corre al encuentro de su hermano Sim\u00f3n, que ser\u00eda el primer Papa, para contarle que han visto al Salvador. Un fragmento del Evangelio que suele titularse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2425,"featured_media":55797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[549,548],"tags":[2698],"class_list":["post-55796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evangelizacion","category-foco","tag-san-andres-apostol","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}