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Saint Andrew's Day, also called the Feast of Saint Andrew or Andermas, is the feast day of Andrew the Apostle. It is celebrated on 30 November, during Scotland's Winter Festival . Saint Andrew is the disciple in the New Testament who introduced his brother, the Apostle Peter , to Jesus , the Messiah .
Relics of St Andrew, a donation by the Catholic Church in 1964. Relics of the apostle Saint Andrew are stored in the church. They consist of the small finger, part of the top of the cranium of the Apostle, and small portions of the cross on which he was martyred, all kept in a special shrine.
The Cathedral Church of St Andrew is a Catholic cathedral in the West End of the city of Dundee, Scotland. The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Dunkeld and mother church of the Diocese of Dunkeld within the Province of St Andrews and Edinburgh. The bishop, since 9 January 2014, is Stephen Robson.
Every year, the parish community of St. Andrew's celebrate two main feasts. First of them is the feast of Nuestra Señora del Buen Suceso . After World War II and up to year 2004, the feast was celebrated every 29th day of November.
The diocese's first bishop Henry J. Richter chose Saint Andrew's as his cathedral and was consecrated in it on April 22, 1883. [2] Lightning struck the cathedral in 1901 and a fire destroyed part of the church building. It was rebuilt and expanded. Some of the wooden beams above the ceiling still show the charred marks from the fire.
St Rule's tower The Whyte-Melville memorial, St Andrews The view from the top of St. Rule's Tower The Eastern Cemetery, St Andrews, looking south to the bay. St Rule's tower is located in the cathedral grounds but antedates it, having served as the church of the priory up to the early 12th century.
Bishop Andrew Byrne dedicated the first St. Andrew Cathedral in 1845. In 1850, Byrne recruited a contingent of Sisters of Mercy from Ireland to come to the parish. He converted his residence next to the cathedral into a convent for them. The sisters then opened a day school with 55 students, nearly all of whom were non-Catholics. [3]
In the same year, the parish was declared as a diocesan shrine, making it the first diocesan shrine to be declared in honor of Saint Andrew the Apostle in the Philippines, and the third diocesan shrine in the Diocese of Iba. The elevation of the parish took place on November 30, 2021, in a Mass presided by Bishop Bartolome G. Santos Jr., during ...