The apostle Andrew was martyred. He died nailed to a cross. His desire to be identified with Christ was so great that when he was being led toward the place of his martyrdom, and saw his own cross ...

We use local storage to store your consent ... This is why the Scottish flag has the X-shaped cross on it, as it is St Andrew's symbol. Mythology claims that it goes back further than that.

and so he was crucified on an x-shaped cross instead. Many of St Andrew's relics are reputedly kept in St. Andrew's Orthodox Cathedral in Patras, which is a place of pilgrimage. Because Andrew is ...

Parts of St Andrew’s relics - or physical remains - and pieces of wood believed to have been from the cross he died on are kept in the cathedral in Patras, the Greek city where he was crucified ...