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There are few consistently agreed Christian traditions about the life and death of Saint Andrew after the founding of the Christian Church. He is said to have been martyred by crucifixion at Patras in Achaea, on the orders of the Roman governor. If this tradition is historical, no particular reason for his execution is known. Suffice to say that there is no reliable evidence that Andrew was even executed at all.
Early texts, such as the Acts of Andrew, describe Andrew bound to a cross of the kind on which Christ was crucified, but a later tradition grew up that Andrew had been crucified on an X-shaped cross, commonly known as Saint Andrew's Cross, at his own request because he was unworthy to be crucified on the same type of cross on which Christ was crucified. This tradition is suspiciously similar to the tradition that his brother, Peter, also said he was unworthy to be crucified on the same type of cross on which Christ was crucified.
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What year did Saint Andrew die?
We only know that Andrew was crucified in Greece sometime towards the middle of the first century AD.
Why was Saint Andrew hanged?
Saint Andrew was not hanged, he was crucified for preaching the Gospel.
How many years did Saint Andrew live?
Since we do not know when Saint Andrew was born nor when he died, there is no answer to this question.
What date did Saint Andrew die on?
We do not know the date but Andrew was crucified on a saltire (x-shaped) cross in Greece some time in the mid to later first century A.D.
Where did Saint Andrew come from?
He was St. Peter's brother, a fisherman from the Sea of Galilee
