Abstract
Beginning with Gregory of Tours and his contemporaries, Venantius Fortunatus and Isidor of Sevilla, the traditions in the West reach a fixed and permanent form. The apparent source is Gregory. Just before he died, the pious and credulous bishop made a summary of the Acts of Andrew and of the Acts of Andrew and Matthias. In one of his earlier writings, however, Gregory states that Andrew suffered at Patrae in Achaia, that his church is there, and that after his death manna and oil came from his tomb. His contemporary, Venantius Fortunatus, left a poem-list of the apostles, in which Noble Achaia sent her Andrew to die. Isidor of Sevilla felt less poetic and gave the world a list of the Apostles and their fates. A large number of anonymous manuscripts collected by Schermann tells in extremely brief form Andrew's death and or burial place.Keywords: Achaia; acts of Andrew; Gregory of Tours; Isidor of Sevilla; Matthias; Patrae; Venantius Fortunatus
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