St Andrew's Day In Scotland Traditions' Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/st-andrews-day-in-scotland-traditions Tue, 15 Jan 2019 15:20:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 St Andrew’s Day in Scotland – Who Was St Andrew? http://travelsfinders.com/st-andrews-day-scotland-st-andrew.html http://travelsfinders.com/st-andrews-day-scotland-st-andrew.html#respond Tue, 15 Jan 2019 15:20:37 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=267293 I HAVE often wished we made more of St Andrew’s Day in Scotland. The name ‘Andrew’ is derived from the Greek word meaning ‘courage’. Andrew is mentioned, and briefly at that, only four times in the New Testament. Andrew became the official patron saint of Scotland in 1320 at the time of the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath. He is also the patron saint of Greece, Russia, Romania and Barbados. Andrew’s patronage extends to fishermen, women wishing to become mothers, spinsters and old maids, singers and people with sore throats. He is also the patron saint of gout sufferers.

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