The town was named after him, and now St. Andrews is famous for its ancient ... on the blue background was adopted as the national flag of Scotland, and is one of the oldest national flags in ...

Article continues below Since 2006, St Andrews Day has been a bank holiday ... Eventually, the Saltire was adopted as the Scottish flag — with many believing it is because of the white clouds ...

St Andrew is Scotland's patron saint, the national flag is named after him, and our intention is that the site will evolve to become the website of choice for the Scottish diaspora. That is why we ...

Therefore, Andrew was crucified on a diagonal cross on November 30, 60AD, and this X-shaped cross is the symbol of Scotland’s Saltire flag which ... you would expect) St Andrews.

In medieval times, the bones of St Andrew, patron saint of Scotland’s Pictish people ... was commissioned and the town — now known as St Andrews — became the country’s ecclesiastical ...