St. Andrew's Day

[Andrewson]

To St. Andrew and Scotland yet!

For your perusal, an interesting link from the City of Edinburgh's web site:

http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/librarie.../standrew.html

And one more:

http://www.st-andrew.org.uk/flagtrust.htm

Todd

Thanks for that Todd. I have been sporting my clan tartan all day today (Forsyth 8yd tank) but I got caught out by a question from a friend - "So why is St Andrew the patron saint of Scotland?" Came back to do some hurried research and found those pages useful.

It is interesting that the links between Scotland and the Saint are so tenuous (not that I'd describe the town of St Andrews as anything but substantial). But then Russia does not seem to have any better claim. At least St Andrew appears to have visited Greece, and maybe Romania. Has anybody got a good explanation why this particular saint was adopted by Scotland?