This looked like St. Andrew's cross, and so he took this as a sign. The Scots won the battle, and where King Athelstan was killed is now the village of Athelstaneford in East Lothian.

ST PETERSBURG, July 11 (Itar-Tass) - The shrine with the Cross of St Andrew the First-Called has arrived in St Petersburg. The relic has opened the festivities marking the 1025th anniversary of ...

St Andrew’s cross is featured on the flag of Scotland. The town of St Andrews was named so as it is claimed to be the saint’s final resting place, but it is believed Saint Andrew never ...

St Andrew’s cross spiderwebs are easy to spot, thanks to their X-shape within the centre which is known as a stabilimentum, there’s looking like the St Andrew’s cross on the Scottish flag. It’s the ...

Discover facts about St Andrew - Scotland's patron saint. ... He is said to have travelled to Greece to preach Christianity, where he was crucified at Patras on an X-shaped cross.

Andrew was first hailed as Scotland’s patron saint in 832, after Oengus II led an army of Picts and Scots to victory in a battle against Aethelstan’s Angles at East Lothian.

Saint Andrew's Day 2023, ... Andrew was crucified on a diagonal cross on 30 November 60 AD, and the Scottish Saltire flag symbolises the X-shaped cross that marks his death.

St. Andrew, whose feast day is Nov. 30, was one of the two initial disciples of John the Baptist who encountered Jesus at the beginning of John’s Gospel.

Caravaggio’s “Crucifixion of Saint Andrew,” at the Cleveland Museum of Art, is his only altarpiece in the U.S.