Relics of St. Andrew the Apostle - Amalfi Cathedral.
JPSonnen Saint Andrew the Apostle Memorial 30 November 9 May (translation of relics)
Profile The first Apostle. Fisherman by trade. Brother of Simon Peter. Follower of John the Baptist. Andrew went through life leading people to Jesus, both before and after the Crucifixion. Missionary in Asia Minor and Greece, and possibly areas in modern Russia and Poland. Martyred on an saltire (x-shaped) cross, he is said to have preached for two days from it.
Some peculiar marriage-related superstitions have attached themselves to Saint Andrew’s feast day.
There are several explanations for why Andrew became the patron of Scotland.
In 345, Emperor Constantine the Great decided to translate Andrew’s bones from Patras, Greece to Constantinople. Saint Regulus of Scotland was instructed by an angel to take many of these relics to the far northwest. He was eventually told to stop on the Fife coast of Scotland, where he founded the settlement of Saint Andrew.
In the 7th century, Saint Wilfrid of York brought some of the saint‘s relics with him after a pilgrimage to Rome, Italy. The Scots king, Angus MacFergus, installed them at Saint Andrew’s to enhance the prestige of the new diocese.
When the Pictish King Angus faced a large invading army, he prayed for guidance. A white cloud in the form of a saltire cross floated across the blue sky above him. Angus won a decisive victory, and decreed that Andrew would be the patron saint of his country. Following Robert Bruce’s victory at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, the Declaration of Arbroath officially named Saint Andrew the patron saint of Scotland. The Saltire became the national flag of Scotland in 1385.
Born
at Bethsaida, Galilee
Died
crucified on a saltire (x-shaped) cross in Patras Greece
relics destroyed c.1559 by Protestants
Patronage
against convulsions
against fever
against gout
against neck pain
against sore throats
against whooping cough
anglers
boatmen
butchers
farm workers
fish dealers
fish mongers
fishermen
happy marriages
maidens
mariners
miners
old maids
pregnant women
rope makers
sail makers
sailors
single lay women
singers
spinsters
textile workers
unmarried women
water carriers
women who wish to become mothers
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Dames of Saint Andrew
Karađorđević dynasty
Knights of the Golden Fleece
Knights of Saint Andrew
Order of the Thistle
Spanish armed forces
University of Patras
—
Austria
Barbados
Germany
Greece
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Romania
Russia
Scotland
Spain
—
Dioceses
Amalfi-Cava de ‘Tirreni, Italy
Constantinople
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Little Rock, Arkansas
Victoria, British Columbia
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Bithynia, Asia Minor
Lower Austria, province of
in Belgium
Brabant
Bruges
Flanders
Hainault
Saint-André
in England
Hexham
Plymouth
Rochester
Yetminster
Agde, France
Avranches, France
Bordeaux, France
Burgundy, France
Orange, France
Berchtesgaden, Germany
Braunschweig, Germany
Celle, Germany
Cloppenburg, Germany
Halberstadt, Germany
Hanover, Germany
Holstein, Germany
Lampertheim, Germany
Lippe, Germany
Lüneburg, Germany
Minden, Germany
Moers, Germany
Prussia, Germany
Schleswig, Germany
Schwarzburg, Germany
Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Achaia, Greece
Patras, Greece
Alfero, Italy
Amalfi, Italy
Antey-Saint-Andre, Italy
Brescia, Italy
Cartosio, Italy
Conflenti, Italy
Grognardo, Italy
Mantua, Italy
Marciano della Chiana, Italy
Naples, Italy
Orani, Italy
Pesaro, Italy
Ravenna, Italy
Samolaco, Italy
Sicily, Italy
Luqa, Malta
Hattem, Netherlands
Manila, Philippines
Saint Andrews, Scotland
Encinasola, Huelva, Spain
San Andreas, California
Representation
fish
fishing net
man bound to a cross
man preaching from a cross
old man with long white hair and a beard, holding the Gospel in his right hand, and leaning on a transverse cross
preacher holding some fish
Saint Andrew’s cross
saltire (x-shaped) cross; some stories say it was may that way, others that it was a Latin cross, but fell over, and his killers just left it propped up on one of the cross-arms
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