The life of St Matthias
He went afterward with Peter and Andrew to Antioch in Syria, and passed through Tianum in Cappadocia and through Sinope. At Sinope he was shut up in prison, and Andrew came and set him free. He went on to Amasea by the sea, and was with Andrew at Edessa and at Sebaste through three years of travelling. The Church remembers that he carried the Gospel as far as the country the older writers call Pontine Ethiopia, and into Macedonia. He stood often in danger of his life and was spared it, until at the last he was put to death for the faith. His head was struck off afterward, so that the killing might be called the punishment of an enemy of Caesar. He is held to have died in the year sixty-three.
