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St. Andrew was the patron saint of the Dukes of Burgundy. A form of St. Andrew's cross called the Cross de Bourgogne was used as the flag of the Duchy of Burgundy, and after the duchy was acquired by Spain, by the Spanish Crown, and later as a Spanish naval flag and finally as an army battle flag up until 1843. [64]
St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland and has a long history of veneration there. [7] The cult of St Andrew was established on the east coast at Kilrymont by the Pictish kings as early as the eighth century. [8] The shrine, which from the twelfth century was said to have contained the relics of the saint brought to Scotland by Saint Regulus ...
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 .
They are the patron saints of, respectively, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, [1] and Wales. The champions were depicted in Christian art and folklore in Great Britain as heroic warriors, most notably in a 1596 book by Richard Johnson titled Famous Historie of the Seaven Champions of Christendom .
Saint Regulus or Saint Rule (Old Irish: Riagal) was a legendary 4th century monk or bishop of Patras, Greece who in AD 345 is said to have fled to Scotland with the bones of Saint Andrew, and deposited them at St Andrews. His feast day in the Aberdeen Breviary is 17 October.
The 1320 Declaration of Arbroath cites Scotland's conversion to Christianity by St. Andrew, "the first to be an Apostle". Depiction of the saint being crucified on a decussate cross was seen on seals in Scotland from 1180 onwards and was used on a seal of the Guardians of Scotland, dated 1286. [20]
St Andrew's Day, 30 November, is the national day with the St. Andrew's Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Act 2007, designating the day to be an official bank holiday. [45] Tartan is a specific woven textile pattern that often signifies a particular Scottish clan, as featured on a kilt.
The patron saint of the order is St Andrew. Most British orders of chivalry cover the whole United Kingdom, but the three most exalted ones each pertain to one constituent country only. The Order of the Thistle, which pertains to Scotland, is the second most senior in precedence.