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Apostle (One who is sent off or away) (II)

one who is sent off or away APOSTOLIC Christian faith. The Bible gives the name of apostle to Barnabas also, who accompanied Paul on his missions (Acts, xiv: 13), and Paul bestows it also on Andronicus and Junia, his relations and companions in prison. In a still wider sense, preachers who first taught Christianity in heathen countries, are sometimes termed apostles; e. g., St. Denis, the apostle of the Gauls; St. Boniface, the apostle of Germany; the monk Augustine, the apostle of England; the Jesuit Francis Xavier, the apostle apos of the Indies; Adalbert of Prague, the apostle of Prussia proper. Paul was the only apostle who had received a scientific education; the others were mechanics. Peter, Andrew, and John are called in the Scriptures (Acts iv: 13), homines sine literis idiotæ. Peter employed his disciple St. Mark in writing the Gospel which bears his name.