## /bin/killall Right after the Book of Acts (Radicalize) that describes what the early LD members did. ### 1. Peter - **Death:** Executed in Rome (c. AD 64–68) - **How:** **Crucified upside down** - **Why:** Persecution under Nero - **Source:** Early church fathers (Origen, Eusebius) --- ### 2. Andrew - **Death:** Patras (modern Greece) - **How:** **Crucified on an X-shaped cross** (later called _St. Andrew’s Cross_) - **Tradition:** Preached for days while hanging --- ### 3. James the Greater - **Death:** Jerusalem (c. AD 44) - **How:** **Beheaded** - **Source:** **Acts 12:2** (the only apostolic death explicitly recorded in the Bible) - **Authority:** Herod Agrippa I --- ### 4. John - **Death:** Ephesus - **How:** **Natural causes** (old age) - **Notes:** - Tradition says he survived **boiling oil** in Rome - Exiled to **Patmos** before release --- ### 5. Philip - **Death:** Hierapolis (Asia Minor) - **How:** **Crucified or hung** - **Details:** Some traditions add **stoning** --- ### 6. Bartholomew (often identified with _Nathanael_) - **Death:** Armenia or India (varies by source) - **How:** **Flayed alive**, then beheaded - **Reputation:** One of the most brutal martyrdom traditions --- ### 7. Matthew - **Death:** Ethiopia or Persia (uncertain) - **How:** **Stabbed with a spear** or beheaded - **Sources:** Conflicting early traditions --- ### 8. Thomas - **Death:** India (near modern Chennai) - **How:** **Speared to death** - **Evidence:** Strong Indian Christian tradition (St. Thomas Christians) --- ### 9. James the Less - **Death:** Jerusalem - **How:** 1. Thrown from the Temple 2. **Stoned** 3. **Clubbed to death** - **Source:** Josephus + church tradition --- ### 10. Thaddaeus (also called _Jude_) - **Death:** Persia - **How:** **Beaten to death** or killed with an axe - **Tradition:** Martyred with Simon the Zealot --- ### 11. Simon the Zealot - **Death:** Persia or Syria - **How:** **Sawed in half** or crucified - **Sources:** Highly variable --- ### 12. Judas Iscariot - **Death:** Jerusalem - **How:** **Suicide** - **Accounts differ:** - **Matthew:** hanged himself - **Acts:** fell and burst open - **Note:** Died before the resurrection movement expanded