Again not a Scot but I had to include St. Andrew for the fact that he is the patron saint of Scotland.
Like most of the saints St. Andrew's life has many different versions and it is impossible to say which is true.
St. Andrew was a disciple of Jesus and the brother of Simon Peter they were both fisherman by trade and fished in Galilee. After Christ's Crucifixion, one version of the legend says that Andrew went to Greece to preach Christianity, where he himself was crucified for his beliefs at a place called Patras, on a cross in the form of and X some say he was nailed to an olive tree. Also the location changes from Greece to the Black Sea area depending on which legend you read.
During the early days of Christianity relics (the remains and items of saints) were important, it proved their existence despite the extraordinary life they seemed to have. Relics were often split up and sent to different churches.
One legend says that St.Regulus (rule) carried the relics, in this case bones of St. Andrew to Scotland, after he had a dream telling him to. Before he could reach his destination the ship hit a storm and was wrecked of the coast of Fife and where the ship was wrecked is now called St. Andrew's. Another legend tells of two monks from North England that went to Rome to bring back the relics of St. Andrew One of these monks pasted the relics to King McFergus one of the King of Scotland (731AD).
Image of St. Andrew, lots of images depicting St. Andrew show him carry a cross.
Again there are many different legends surrounding the Saltire (the cross of St. Andrew) as the Scottish flag. Some People say that Angus had a dream one night that St. Andrew appeared to him and promised a great victory, Angus was about to fight a battle against a King from the North of England. on the day of the battle a white cross appeared in the sky and Angus won the battle this is said to be why the flag of Scotland is a white cross on a sky blue background.
The other version is that when Angus was walking with friends St. Andrew appeared to him and told him when he marched against his enemies he would see the white cross, so Angus had banners made for his soldiers to carry into battle with the white cross on them.
The Saltire, the flag of Scotland.
ST ANDREWS CATHEDRAL.
The remains of the cathedral still show how magnificent the building must have been.
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for some lovely Celtic designs visit Aon just click the link above