SAINT ANDREW A MISSIONARY OF ROMANIAN CHRISTIANITY. THE PATH OF HIS VENERATION AS SAINT

Abstract

Honored, especially by the Ecumenical Patriarchy of Constantinople, by the churches of Greece, Russia, Ukraine and Romania, and in the Western tradition being considered patron and protector of Scotland, the country where the parts of his holy relics arrived in the 8th century, St. Andrew always calls all humanity to discover the pure and holy joy that never gets old, through the expression: „We have found the Messiah!” St. Andrew is related to the origins of Christianity at the Romanians, and is mentioned as a possible/sure missionary in Schythia Minor (Dobrogea from today) and implicitly in Tomis. The massive spread of Christianity in the territory between the Danube and the Sea is confirmed by various sources, arguing that, on a certain date, a Christianization of our ancestors was accomplished by their mass conversion, at the basis of which an important role was played by St. Apostle Andrew.