The 'Catholic Encyclopedia' asserts that "the additional details which are found concerning Joseph in the apocryphal 'Acts of Pilate', are unworthy of credence."

According to the apocryphal Acts of Peter, Peter asked Jesus, "Lord, where are you going?"

But in the mid-second century the apocryphal 'Acts of John' presented St John as a lifelong virgin.

He was wrongly thought to have been the author of the apocryphal Acts of John, which is dated by present scholars to the end of the 2nd century.

Georgios at the Council of St. Sophia, about 1450, if one can believe the apocryphal Acts of this council, which perhaps never occurred.

In the Gnostic apocryphal Acts of St. Peter, dating from the 2nd century, a daughter of St. Peter is mentioned, although her name is not given.

The apocryphal Acts of Peter gives a more elaborate tale of Simon Magus' death.

Information on this saint is based on the apocryphal Acts of Saint Callixtus.

The only known record of her comes from the apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla, probably composed in the 2nd century.

The Harrowing of Hell, derived from the apocryphal Acts of Pilate, was a popular part of the York and Wakefield cycles.