St Andrew's flag St. Andrew's cross is based on the diagonal shape of the cross that St. Andrew was put to death on. In heraldry a saltire is a diagonal x-shaped cross. There are two forms of the ...

or 'saltire', on Scotland's flag. Andrew's connection with Scotland relates to the legend that some of his remains were kept at the site that is now the town of St Andrews. A chapel was built to ...

Adopted: 1895 Alabama adopted their state flag, which is a red St. Andrew's cross, which was also used as a reference for the Confederate battle flag, on a field of white, in 1895. Adopted: 1913 A ...

What, in practice, did Saint Andrew mean to the Scots? When, in 1603, the new King James I and VI tried to make one united flag, the Scots resisted because the saltire cross had been given an ...

Adopted in 1895, the state flag of Alabama is a simple crimson “X,” also known as the cross of St. Andrew, against a field of white. According to the Alabama Department of Archives and History ...

On this day Scotland celebrates its patron saint Andrew the Apostle and the Saltire flag will be flown from all Scottish ...