Happy Feast of St. Andrew

[imbrius]

Happy St. Andrew's Day everyone. I'll be kilting up today, even though I'm working from home same as I've been for the past ten months.

[Kiltedjohn]

It's a pity we can't go to group celebrations, but happy St. Andrew's day to everyone, however we manage to celebrate! (And, yes, I'm kilted up as well.)

[kilted redleg]

Happy St. Andrew's day to all x markers. Double celebration for me today ! November 30th marks the day the U.S. Army formed my unit the 85th US Army Field Artillery Detachment to handle the mid range Pershing [named after ol black jack himself] nuclear missal, part of the arsenal that kept Western Europe free. I'll think of all of you when I raise my glass.

[Father Bill]

Andrew indeed!



Also known as; Andrew the Protoclete Andreas…. Endres….

Memorial 30 November
9 May (translation of relics)
13 December (Ukraine)

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The first Apostle. Fisherman by trade. Brother of Simon Peter. Follower of John the Baptist. Andrew went through life leading people to Jesus, both before and after the Crucifixion. Missionary in Asia Minor and Greece, and possibly areas in modern Russia and Poland. Martyred on an saltire (x-shaped) cross, he is said to have preached for two days from it.

Some peculiar marriage-related superstitions have attached themselves to Saint Andrew’s feast day.

An old German tradition says that single women who wish to marry should ask for Saint Andrew’s help on the eve of his feast, then sleep naked that night; they will see their future husbands in their dreams. Another says that young women should note the location of barking dogs on Saint Andrew’s Eve: their future husbands will come from that direction. On the day after Andrew’s feast, young people float cups in a tub; if a boy‘s and a girl‘s cup drift together and are intercepted by a cup inscribed “priest”, it indicates marriage.

There are several explanations for why Andrew became the patron of Scotland.

In 345, Emperor Constantine the Great decided to translate Andrew’s bones from Patras, Greece to Constantinople. Saint Regulus of Scotland was instructed by an angel to take many of these relics to the far northwest. He was eventally told to stop on the Fife coast of Scotland, where he founded the settlement of Saint Andrew. In the 7th century, Saint Wilfrid of York brought some of the saint‘s relics with him after a pilgrimage to Rome, Italy. The Scots king, Angus MacFergus, installed them at Saint Andrew’s to enhance the prestige of the new diocese. When the Pictish King Angus faced a large invading army, he prayed for guidance. A white cloud in the form of a saltire cross floated across the blue sky above him. Angus won a decisive victory, and decreed that Andrew would be the patron saint of his country. Following Robert Bruce’s victory at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, the Declaration of Arbroath officially named Saint Andrew the patron saint of Scotland. The Saltire became the national flag of Scotland in 1385.

Born at Bethsaida, Galilee

Died crucified on a saltire (x-shaped) cross in Patras Greece relics destroyed c.1559 by Protestants

Patronage
against convulsions against fever against gout against neck pain against sore throats against whooping cough anglers boatmen butchers farm workers fish dealers fish mongers fishermen happy marriages maidens mariners miners old maids pregnant women rope makers sail makers sailors single lay women singers spinsters textile workers unmarried women water carriers women who wish to become mothers — Dames of Saint Andrew Karadordevic dynasty Knights of the Golden Fleece Knights of Saint Andrew Order of the Thistle Spanish armed forces University of Patras Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards — Austria Barbados Germany Greece Luxembourg Netherlands Romania Russia Scotland Spain Ukraine — Dioceses Amalfi-Cava de ‘Tirreni, Italy Constantinople Grand Rapids, Michigan Little Rock, Arkansas Victoria, British Columbia – Bithynia, Asia Minor Lower Austria, province of in Belgium Balen Brabant Bruges Flanders Hainault Saint-André – in England Hexham Plymouth Rochester Yetminster – in France Agde Avranches Bordeaux Burgundy Orange – in Germany Berchtesgaden Braunschweig Celle Cloppenburg Halberstadt Hanover Holstein Lampertheim Lippe Lüneburg Minden Moers Prussia Schleswig Schwarzburg Wolfenbüttel – in Greece Achaia Patras – in Italy Alfero Amalfi Andrano Antey-Saint-Andre Brescia Cartosio Conflenti Grognardo Mantua Marciano della Chiana Naples Orani Pesaro Premolo Ravenna Samolaco Sicily Luqa, Malta Hattem, Netherlands Manila, Philippines Saint Andrews, Scotland Encinasola, Huelva, Spain San Andreas, California

Representation
fish fishing net man bound to a cross man preaching from a cross old man with long white hair and a beard, holding the Gospel in his right hand, and leaning on a transverse cross preacher holding some fish Saint Andrew’s cross saltire (x-shaped) cross; some stories say it was made that way, others that it was a Latin cross, but fell over, and his killers just left it propped up on one of the cross-arms