1

Matthew

Suffered martyrdom in

Ethiopia, killed by a sword wound.

2

Mark

Died in Alexandria , Egypt , after being dragged by

horses through the streets until he was dead.

3

Luke

Was hanged in Greece as a result of his tremendous

 preaching to the lost.

4

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.

5

 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.

  6

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.

7

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

8

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.

9

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.

10

Thomas

Was stabbed with a spear in India during one of his

missionary trips to establish the church in the sub-continent

11

Jude

Was killed with arrows when he refused to deny his

faith in Christ.

12

Matthias

The apostle chosen to replace the traitor Judas Iscariot,

was stoned and then beheaded.

13

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.