|
Apostle |
Where
died |
When died |
Manner of Death |
|
Peter (Simon Peter),
|
Rome, Italy
(Nero) |
54-68AD |
Homicide:
crucified head down,
at his own request |
|
Andrew, son of a
John & brother of Peter (Matthew 4:18) |
Edessa, Greece |
?AD |
Homicide:
severely scourged & tied by ropes on x-shaped cross where he
hung 2 days to expire |
James,
son of Zebedee & Salome and elder bro. of John (not bro. of
Jesus) the Bible writer |
Jerusalem, Israel
(Herod) |
44 AD
(the 1st martyred) |
Homicide:
beheaded with sword; Mark 10:39 & Acts 12:1-2 |
John,
son of Zebedee and bro. of James;
Bible writer |
Ephesus, Turkey
or Turkish Isle
of Patmos |
98 AD |
thrown in boiling
oil but unharmed; died of Natural causes in Ephesus |
|
Philip of Bethsaida |
Hieropolis, Syria |
|
Homicide:
crucified |
|
Bartholomew
(Nathaniel) |
India or
Armenia |
|
Homicide:
beaten/flayed, and crucified
head down |
|
Thomas (Didymus) |
Edessa, Greece |
|
Homicide:
lanced by
idolatrous priests & burned up in an oven |
Matthew (Levi), of
Capernaum
the Bible writer |
Nadabah, Ethiopia |
about 60AD |
Homicide:
axed to death with a halberd |
James (son of
Alphaeus);
Bible writer
(? half bro. of Jesus?) |
Jerusalem, Israel |
AD66 |
Homicide:
thrown down from the Temple tower & not dead so clubbed to
death with a fullers club at age 94 |
|
Jude (Thaddaeus ...
Judas Lebbaeus) |
Edessa, Greece |
AD72 |
Homicide:
crucified |
Simon the Zealot
(the Canaanite) |
Brittainnia, Europe |
|
Homicide:
crucified |
|
Judas Iscariot |
Jerusalem, Israel |
|
Suicide:
by hanging Matt. 27:5 |
|
Matthias (the 11
remaining Apostles chose him to replace Judas) |
Jerusalem, Israel |
|
Homicide:
stoned and beheaded |
|
Paul (chosen by Jesus on the road to Damascus) |
Rome, Italy |
66 AD |
Homicide:
beheaded |
