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Bay 13 - St Andrew the Apostle
(All images © Dr Stuart Whatling)
Panel 01 - The aged Nicholas confessing his sinful lust to Andrew Panel 02 - Andrew exorcising a demon from a boy with bound wrists Panel 03 - Some devils stoning travellers on the road outside Nicea Panel 04 - The townspeople of Nicea witnessing Andrew's exorcism Panel 05 - The demons appear before Andrew in the form of dogs Panel 06 - Demons kill the Proconsul's wife and her lover in the bath Panel 07 - Andrew baptising his followers (Lesbius and Trophima?) Panel 08 - The raising of Demetrius of Amasea's Egyptian boy Panel 09 - Andrew driving away two devils Panel 10 - The people of Nicea greet Andrew (panel 1 of 2) Panel 11 - The people of Nicea greet Andrew (panel 2 of 2) Panel 12 - Unidentified scene (three men) Panel 13 - A troop of soldiers coming to arrest Andrew (scene 1 of 3) Panel 14 - The Thracian soldiers worship Andrew (scene 3 of 3) Panel 15 - An angel lays low the troop of soldiers (scene 2 of 3) Panel 16 - Aegeas orders Andrew's arrest Panel 17 - Andrew is cast into prison Panel 18 - Andrew is beaten with clubs Panel 19 - The crucifixion of Andrew
Index to the panels:
01 - The aged Nicholas confessing his sinful lust to Andrew
02 - Andrew exorcising a demon from a boy with bound wrists

10 - The people of Nicea greet Andrew (panel 1 of 2)
11 - The people of Nicea greet Andrew (panel 2 of 2)
03 - Some devils stoning travellers on the road outside Nicea
04 - The townspeople of Nicea witnessing Andrew's exorcism
05 - The demons appear before Andrew in the form of dogs

06 - Demons kill the Proconsul's wife and her lover in the bath
07 - Andrew baptising his followers (Lesbius and Trophima?)
08 - The raising of Demetrius of Amasea's Egyptian boy
09 - Andrew driving away two devils
12 - Unidentified scene (three men)

13 - A troop of soldiers coming to arrest Andrew (scene 1 of 3)
15 - An angel lays low the troop of soldiers (scene 2 of 3)
14 - The Thracian soldiers worship Andrew (scene 3 of 3)

16 - Aegeas orders Andrew's arrest
17 - Andrew is cast into prison
18 - Andrew is beaten with clubs
19 - The crucifixion of Andrew

Overview:
As usual, Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend has the basics of Andrew's vita - but many of the episodes so clearly illustrated here don't appear in that compilation. Instead one must turn to the apocrypha for the extended version of the Apostle's life. For medieval audiences, the obvious source was Gregory of Tours, whose Liber de miraculis included a lengthy section cobbled together from assorted 2nd-3rd century Greek texts on the Acts of Andrew. For the background to these texts, see Wilhelm Schneemelcher & Robert McLachlan Wilson (eds) "New Testament Apocrypha: Writings relating to the Apostles; Apocalypses and related subjects", chapter XV. There is also an on-line version of M R James' 1924 translation of Gregory's text at http://gnosis.org/library/actandy.htm.