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Summary
- Andrea is the Italian form of Andrew, and Italian Bibles call the apostle Andrea (John 1:40). English, Spanish, French and Portuguese Bibles use Andrew, Andrés and André.
- In most other languages Andrea is a woman’s name, the feminine of Andrew. No woman in Scripture bears it.
- The name comes from the Greek Andreas, from andreios, “manly,” from aner, “man.”
- Andrew, a fisherman and the brother of Simon Peter, followed Jesus from John the Baptist’s circle and brought Peter to him (John 1:35-42).
- Tradition says he was crucified at Patras. He is the patron saint of Scotland, Greece, Russia and Romania, with his feast on 30 November.
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Sources: Behind the Name entries for Andrea (Italian and feminine) and Andrew; Wikipedia, “Andrew the Apostle”; Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (John 1:35-42; John 6:9; John 12:22; Mark 1:16-17; Mark 13:3-4), with John 1:40 in the Nuova Riveduta 2006, Reina-Valera 1960, Louis Segond, Almeida Revista e Corrigida and Luther 1545.
