What were the fates of the twelve disciples?
At the time of Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria, martyrdom was confined to St. Peter, St. Paul, and St. James. The rest of the disciples were gradually discovered to have been martyred by the more recent Greeks, who prudently selected for the theatre of the disciples’ preaching and sufferings some remote country beyond the Roman Empire, where proof to the contrary could never be ascertained. Apart from these traditions, we have no evidence for the fates of the disciples.
