Today is St Andrews Day, Scotland’s national day and according to French tradition, a sort of birthday for anybody called Andrew. So here’s a picture of the city of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland, showing a bit of a cliff where the fulmars glide and the St Andrews harbour wall.
St Andrews
St Andrew himself, if he existed as such, never went to Scotland, he lived in Greece.
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Happy Saints day darling
but he wasn’t Greek:
One of the first disciples he was supposedly born between AD 5 and AD 10 in Bethsaida, the principal fishing port of Palestine. His parents were Jona and Joanna; his brother was Simon. Jona, along with his business-partner and friend Zebedee and his sons James and John, was a fisherman. He’d have spoken Aramaic not Greek. His bones went first to Patros (hence the Greek connection) and then according to legend were brought to Kilrymount (later St Andrews) to St Mary’s on the Rock by Kentigern (St Mungo).
Thanks for setting the Saint Andrews day legend straight.
How are you getting on trying to persuade Wikipedia that the Scottish town and former Royal Burgh of St Andrews is in fact a city?
hi
Hi Linda, I came across your comments when I was investigating the background for a painting of St Andrew.
In your last sentance you mentioned that his remains 733 were taken to St Mary’s by St Kentigern. I do not understand that. as St Kentigern was dead by then . There is mention in Wikipedia of St Rule bringing the remains to Scotland.
Sorry to be so pedantic I was interested as I live in Glasgow where StMuno is the Patron Saint.
Brendan
Did I say Kentigern? Oh dear, St Rule. Silly me