Article continues below Since 2006, St Andrews Day has been a bank holiday ... Eventually, the Saltire was adopted as the Scottish flag — with many believing it is because of the white clouds ...

The town was named after him, and now St. Andrews is famous for its ancient ... on the blue background was adopted as the national flag of Scotland, and is one of the oldest national flags in ...

is depicted on Scotland’s national flag. Legend has it that some of Andrew’s bones – including finger bones, an arm bone and a kneecap – were brought to St. Andrews as relics in the eighth ...

St Andrews Day is celebrated in Scotland as Andrew the Apostle is the country's patron saint. Andrew was selected as Scotland's patron saint in 1320 when Scotland made an appeal to the Pope for ...

In medieval times, the bones of St Andrew, patron saint of Scotland’s Pictish people ... was commissioned and the town — now known as St Andrews — became the country’s ecclesiastical ...