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Acts of Andrew and Matthias
The Acts of Andrew and Matthias and the subsequent Acts of Peter and Andrew are heroic romances, written sometime between the 2nd and 5th centuries. Unlike the other apocryphal Acts, they appear to have no real doctrinal or theological purposes, but were merely intriguing fictional accounts of the apostles.
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