Joanna is a woman mentioned in the gospels who was healed by Jesus and later supported him and his disciples in their travels. She was the wife of Chuza, who managed the household of Herod Antipas, the king of Galilee. Her name means "Yahweh has been gracious." In the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic traditions, she is a saint. She is often considered a disciple who later became an apostle.. In the Bible, she is one of the women recorded in the Gospel of Luke as accompanying Jesus and the twelve: "Mary, called Magdalene, ... and Joanna the wife of Herod's steward Chuza, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their resources".

The author of the Gospel of Luke claims that his Gospel is based on interviews and eyewitness testimony. There are 13 separate references to Herod in the Gospel of Luke, only four of which can also be found in the other gospels. This means that there are nine references to Herod in the Gospel of Luke for which Luke had to have a source independent of another gospel. Hastings (1958) suggests that Joanna could easily have informed Jesus and Luke of the splendid style in which Antipas and his court officials lived. Joanna must have been one of the eyewitnesses available to Luke as a source for his Herodian material.

Joanna Bogle (nėe Nash) is a British Catholic journalist, writer and broadcaster.

From a 'mixed' family, her father was not a Catholic, she worked for the Richmond Herald and later the Surrey Comet newspaper after leaving school. Bogle has written a weekly column for the Catholic Times and has been described by liberal Catholic writer Peter Stanford as "a forceful, eloquent and youthful firebrand who has made it her business, with some success, to act as a counter-balance to Ms [Cristina] Odone on the chat-show and soundbite circuit."

Bogle's biography of nineteenth century humanitarian Caroline Chisholm The Emigrant's Friend was published in 1993. Bogle's current project is a work about Mother Riccarda Beauchamp Hambrough and Sister Katherine Flanagan, two British Bridgettine nuns in Rome who hid 50 Jewish refugees in their guesthouse during the Nazi occupation.

Bogle is a founder member of the Association for Catholic Women in England and a contributing editor to the Catholic journal Voices. She married Australian-born Jamie Bogle, now a barrister, in 1980.

Saint Andrew (Greek: Ἀνδρέας, Andreas; from the early 1st century—mid to late 1st century AD), called in the Orthodox tradition Prōtoklētos, or the First-called, is a Christian Apostle and the brother of Saint Peter. The name "Andrew" (Greek: manly, brave, from ἀνδρεία, Andreia, "manhood, valour"), like other Greek names, appears to have been common among the Jews, Christians, and other Hellenized peoples of the region. No Hebrew or Aramaic name is recorded for him. He is considered the founder and the first bishop of the Church of Byzantium and is consequently the patron saint of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

The New Testament states that Andrew was the brother of Simon Peter, by which it is inferred that he was likewise a son of John, or Jonah.^{[Mt. 16:17] [Jn. 1:42]} He was born in Bethsaida on the Sea of Galilee.^[Jn. 1:44] Both he and his brother Peter were fishermen by trade, hence the tradition that Jesus called them to be his disciples by saying that he will make them "fishers of men" (Greek: ἁλιεῖς ἀνθρώπων, halieĩs anthrōpōn). At the beginning of Jesus' public life, they were said to have occupied the same house at Capernaum.^{[Mk. 1:21-29]}