{"id":134,"date":"2022-11-09T18:46:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T18:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullvva\/?page_id=134"},"modified":"2022-11-09T18:46:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T18:46:39","slug":"facts-about-st-andrew","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullvva\/facts-about-st-andrew\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts about St Andrew"},"content":{"rendered":"

St Andrew was not Scottish <\/strong>The patron\u00a0saint\u00a0was born\u00a0in Bethsaida, Galilee, now Israel. While he was revered in Scotland from around\u00a01,000 AD, he didn\u2019t become its official\u00a0patron\u00a0saint until the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320.<\/p>\n

He is not just the patron saint of Scotland <\/strong>He also the patron saint of Greece, Russia, Italy\u2019s Amalfi and\u00a0Barbados. As well as the patron saint\u00a0of singers, spinsters, maidens, fishmongers, fishermen, women wanting to be mothers, gout and sore throats. St Andrew is also\u00a0the patron saint of the Order of the Thistle, one of the highest ranks of chivalry in the world, second only to the Order of the Garter.<\/p>\n

St Andrew was Jesus\u2019s first disciple <\/strong>Andrew was a fisherman before he and his brother Simon Peter became two of the 12 disciples of Jesus. He was baptised by John the Baptist\u00a0and was the first disciple of Jesus. In the Greek Orthodox tradition he is known as \u201cPr\u014dtokl\u0113tos\u201d \u201cthe first-called\u201d.<\/p>\n

He did a lot of travelling after his death <\/strong>St Andrew was crucified in Greece, but his remains were moved to Constantinople hundreds of years later. In the 13th Century they were moved again, this time to Amalfi in Italy. Most of him is still there today.<\/p>\n

People took pilgrimages to the site of some of his remains <\/strong>The presence of relics of St Andrew,\u00a0including a tooth, kneecap, arm and finger bone, meant St Andrew\u2019s became a popular medieval pilgrimage site until the 16th century \u2013 when they were destroyed in the Scottish Reformation. In 1870, the Archbishop of Amalfi sent an apparent piece of the saint\u2019s\u00a0shoulder blade to Scotland, where it has since been stored\u00a0in St\u00a0Mary\u2019s Cathedral\u00a0in Edinburgh. Pope Paul VI gave Scotland more bits in 1969.<\/p>\n

St Andrew came to Scotland because of a vision <\/strong>Legend has it that St Andrew\u2019s first relics ended up in Scotland thanks to St Rule or St Regulus, a Greek monk who had a vision in which he was told to take them to the ends of the earth for safekeeping. His journey took him to the shores of Fife, where St Andrews now stands.<\/p>\n

St Andrew was was killed by being crucified on a saltire, or x-shaped cross, for baptizing Maximilla, the wife of the Roman governor of Patras.<\/p>\n

His symbol, the saltire, is featured on the flag of Scotland, where he established the Church of Saint Andrew.<\/p>\n

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St Andrew was not Scottish The patron\u00a0saint\u00a0was born\u00a0in Bethsaida, Galilee, now Israel. While he was revered in Scotland from around\u00a01,000 AD, he didn\u2019t become its official\u00a0patron\u00a0saint until the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320. He is not just the patron saint of Scotland He also the patron saint of Greece, Russia, Italy\u2019s Amalfi … Continue reading Facts about St Andrew<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5152,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-134","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullvva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullvva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullvva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullvva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullvva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullvva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullvva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/turnbullvva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}