ON ST. ANDREW, BISHOP OF TRIER.
About the year 236.
CommentaryAndrew, Bishop of Trier (St.)
The deeds of Andrew, the most holy Bishop of Trier, have either not been committed to writing or have since perished, as have most records of that era. He occupied that episcopal chair as its twelfth occupant, as Demochares, Claudius Robertus, and Petrus Cratepolius relate. Concerning him, our Christophorus Brouwer writes the following in the Annales Trevirenses, book 3: When he lived. "Meanwhile, when Anastasius (about whom see December 20) was snatched from the flock of Trier by the bitterness of death in the year of Christ our Liberator 227, Andrew was appointed Bishop in his place in the same office of watchfulness." And a little further on, at the year 235: "Andrew, Bishop of Trier, was thereafter taken away either by his own death or by the sword of a persecutor; Whether he was a Martyr. in his place Rusticus, the first of that name, became the thirteenth Bishop of Trier." The author of the manuscript Florarium calls Andrew a Martyr and records him under this day: "At Trier," he says, "of Andrew, Bishop and Martyr."