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.
Jude
Was killed with arrows when he refused to deny his faith
in Christ.
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
He was crucified upside down on an x-shaped 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.
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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.
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 epistles 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.
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
Thomas
Was stabbed with a spear in India during one of his
missionary trips to establish the church in the
sub-continent
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
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.
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