where are the remains of the apsotles?

Question

common sense tells me that they would have been preserved or at least some memorial erected to them. they were VIP's of god after all.

no i'm not implying they don't exist. i'm asking where they are buried. duh!

Answer 1

I hate butting in, since I really don't know the answer to your question, but I'm just ticked off by Neweyes' response. There was really no need for you to be rude to this woman, she simply asked a question. If you don't know the answer you should have said so.

Answer 2

Here is an interesting article on it:
http://ncrcafe.org/node/1075

The answer is, though, no one knows for sure. At least, not with all of them. It was so long ago, and almost from the beginning, "relics" were being sold to unwary customers that were supposed to be the bones of this or that saint.

Have you ever seen the movie Luther? Great flick by the way, if you're into church history. Anyway, there's this one line where Luther says, "And fifteen of the twelve apostles are buried in Spain!" All too true.

Oh, while you're reading that article, it mentions Trier as holding the remains of the apostle Matthias? I've been to that church. It's really cool.

Answer 3

Non-religious sources are usually the most reliable.

It is supposed that

Andrew is buried in St. Andrews, Scotland.

James, the greater, in Santiago, Spain.

Peter, in England close to Brickett Woods.

The Peter in St Peter's Basilica in Rome, Italy is in fact the bones of Simon Magus who tried to buy the Holy Spirit.

Answer 4

I assume you are implying that since no remains have been found that they did not exist.

You do realise that this is the same argument used by people who deny evolution.

Thats some nice logic there.

Answer 5

No one actually knows the exact location, only God does, but they will be resurrected when the 1st resurrection takes place, just as anyone else that die in the Lord.

Answer 6

under ground. Jesus said leave the dead to bury the dead. Dont bother about the dead. They will be judged on the judgment day. Its the Muslims that pray to the dead.

Answer 7

Where are you great great great grand parents remains?

they decompossed duh what do you expect? the apostles bones to last forever? ha
they were humans not Gods!

use common sense


ha Did you forget how most of them died?


church tradition in regards to the death of an apostle is that the Apostle Peter was crucified, upside-down on an x-shaped cross, in Rome, in fulfillment of Jesus’ prophecy (John 21:18). Following are the most popular “traditions” in regards to the deaths of the other apostles:

Matthew suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia, killed by a sword wound.

John faced martyrdom when he was boiled in a 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 what is now modern-day Turkey. He died as an old man, the only apostle to die peacefully.

James, the brother of Jesus (not officially an apostle), 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 club. This was the same pinnacle where Satan had taken Jesus during the temptation.

Bartholomew, also know as Nathanael, was a missionary to Asia. He witnessed in present-day Turkey and was martyred for his preaching in Armenia, when he was flayed to death by a whip.

Andrew was crucified on an x-shaped cross in Greece. After being whipped severely by seven soldiers, Andrew's body was tied 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 died.

The Apostle Thomas was stabbed with a spear in India during one of his missionary trips to establish the church there.

Matthias, the apostle chosen to replace the traitor Judas Iscariot, was stoned and then beheaded.


The Apostle Paul was tortured and then beheaded by the evil Emperor Nero at Rome in A.D. 67.

ITS KIND OF HARD TO BE PERSERVED WHEN YOU DIE DEATHS LIKE THAT.

Answer 8

From dust thou art to dust thou returneth.

Answer 9

I just don't know.

Answer 10

in my backyard.