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Matthew
Suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia, killed by a sword wound.

Mark
Died in Alexandria, Egypt, after being dragged by horses
through the streets until he was dead.

Luke
Was hanged in Greece as a result of his tremendous preaching to
the lost.

John
Faced martyrdom when he was boiled in huge basin of boiling oil
during a wave of persecution in Rome. However, he was
miraculously delivered from death. John was then sentenced to the
mines on the prison island of Patmos. He wrote his prophetic
Book of Revelation on Patmos. The apostle John was later freed and
returned to serve as Bishop of Edessa in modern Turkey. He died as
an old man, the only apostle to die peacefully.

Peter
Was crucified upside down on an x-shape d cross. According to
church tradition it was because he told his tormentors that he
felt unworthy to die in the same way that Jesus Christ had died.

James
Just the leader of the church in Jerusalem was thrown over a
hundred feet down from the southeast pinnacle of the Temple when he
refused to deny his faith in Christ. When they discovered that he
survived the fall, his enemies beat James to death with a fuller’s
club.
* This was the same pinnacle where Satan had taken Jesus during
the Temptation.

James the Great, son of Zebedee
was a fisherman by trade when Jesus called him to a lifetime of ministry.
As a strong leader of the church, James was ultimately beheaded at
Jerusalem… The Roman officer who guarded James watched amazed
as James defended his faith at his trial. Later, the officer walked beside
James to the place of execution… Overcome by conviction, he declared
his new faith to the judge and knelt beside James to accept beheading
as a Christian.

Bartholomew also known as Nathaniel
Was a missionary to Asia. He witnessed for our Lord in present day
Turkey. Bartholomew was martyred for his preaching in Armenia
where he was flayed to death by a whip.

Andrew
Was crucified on an x-shaped cross in Patras , Greece .
After being whipped severely by seven soldiers they tied his body to the
cross with cords to prolong his agony. His followers reported that,
when he was led toward the cross, Andrew saluted it in these words:
‘I have long desired and expected this happy hour. The cross has been
consecrated by the body of Christ hanging on it.’ He continued to
preach to his tormentors for two days until he expired.

Thomas
Was stabbed with a spear in India during one of his missionary
trips to establish the church in the sub-continent.

Jude,
Was killed with arrows when he refused to deny his faith in
Christ. Matthias The apostle chosen to replace the traitor Judas Iscariot
was stoned and then beheaded.

Barnabas
One of the group of seventy disciples, wrote the Epistle of
Barnabas. He preached throughout Italy and Cyprus. Barnabas was
stoned to death at Salonica.

Paul
Was tortured and then beheaded by the evil Emperor Nero at Rome
in A.D. 67. Paul endured a lengthy imprisonment which
allowed him to write his many epistle s to the churches he had formed
throughout the Roman Empire . These letters, which taught many of the
foundational doctrines of Christianity, form a large portion of the
New Testament.

Perhaps this is a reminder to us that our sufferings here are indeed
minor compared to the intense persecution and cold cruelty faced by
the apostles disciples during their times for the sake of the Faith.
So its stated in the bible,
All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. Mt 10:22
Perhaps this should be like a reminder for us in this New Year to stay in the right track till the second coming of our savior!!
God Bless…