Adopt a patron saint for your Academy, school, or group. Prayerfully consider who might intercede for your students, staff, clergy, families, and stakeholders. Write a brief introduction to that saint, pulling details from the Synaxarion or Scripture, in your founding document.
Saint Andrew the First Called is one of the Twelve Apostles of our Lord. His name means “manliness” and in his simplicity and faith he became a pillar of the Church. He recognized that Jesus was the Christ and hastened to follow him. St. Andrew was a simple fisherman, not an intellectual like St. Paul or a man of letters like St. Luke. Nevertheless, he has chosen our humble parish, by the grace of God, as a site to found an Academy dedicated to his honor and veneration. We ask that his prayers may make us successful and grant us salvation, amen!