Today is the Feast of St. Andrew, one of the original Twelve Apostles. Andrew was the brother of Peter, and both were fishermen. In the Gospels of Matthew (4:18-20) and Mark (1:16-17), they are ...

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 ...

Noble, captain of the Saint Andrew’s School boys cross country team, led the team from an 18-minute, 57-second average to a 17:43 average for the year.

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 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.

Therefore, Andrew was crucified on a diagonal cross on November 30, 60AD, and this X-shaped cross is the symbol of Scotland’s ...

Millions of Scottish people will be celebrating St Andrew's Day today. November 30 marks the day when people across Scotland come together to celebrate the feast day of our patron saint. The ...

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.

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