Saint Andrew of Crete

Memorial

• 17 October

Profile

Eighth-century hermit on Crete. When the Byzantine Emperor Constantine Copronymus published his edict against venerating icons, Andrew went to Constantinople and denounced the iconoclast heresy so forcefully that he was taken before the emperor himself. Martyr.

Born

• Crete

Died

• tortured to death in 761 in Constantinople

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Andrew of Crete”. Saints.SQPN.com. 19 July 2012. Web. 22 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-andrew-of-crete-17-october/>