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St Andrew
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(1st century AD)
Patron saint of Scotland, with a feast day on November 30. He was one of the twelve apostles and brother of St Peter. Bones said to be his were brought to *St Andrews in Scotland at some time before the 8C, and early medieval tradition asserted that he was crucified on an X-shaped cross at Patras, in Greece. Thus the X-shaped cross became his emblem and is one of the three constituent parts of the *Union Jack, representing Scotland.
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