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== The "''Revelations of Andrew" ''==An intriguing part of the ''Life'' of St. Andrew, written by a certain "Nicephorus in Constantinople" in the tenth century, is the section when Andrew is answering a question made by his disciple Epiphanius on "when and how this world will come to an an end." During the Byzantine era, a number of writings appeared predicting the [[Apocalypse]] to be marked by the fall of Constantinople. While they were repeated in the 14th and 15th centuries, their origins are most likely in the 10th, while whilst the Eastern Roman Empire was still strong. Constantinople's destruction is described along these lines in the ''Life of Andrew the Fool''. One of his disciples  The text claims that [[Hagia Sophia (Constantinople)|Hagia Sophia]] would survive a great flood by "floating over waters," but St. Andrew explains instead that only the column (the obelisk) would survive because beneath its foundations are the [[Holy Nails]] which were used to crucify [[Jesus Christ]]. In this work, Andrew is depicted as predicting that the world's end would fall shortly after Constantinople's fall; in those times "shortly" could be a period of 100 to up to 1,000 years. A few of the oldest manuscripts, dating from the 14th-century or earlier, containing this information include: * Vindobonesis hist. gr. 123, s. XIV, fols. {{cite}}84-90* Vaticanus gr. 1574, s.XI-XII, fols. 147-59* Atheniensis 1014, a 1071, fols. 93-104