Andrew, Saint

Saint, one of the twelve apostles. He was noted for good sense and a meditative disposition. The principal allusions to Andrew are John i: 40; John vi: 8; John xii: 22; Mark xiii: 3. Tradition has it that he preached the gospel in the countries north of Greece, and that he suffered martyrdom on the cross. The Russians consider him the founder of their church. St. Andrew is the tutelary saint of Scotland, as are St. George for England and St. Patrick for Ireland. Saint Andrew's day, November 30, is observed in the Roman, Greek, and Anglican churches. The silver cross of St. Andrew, carried by the Scots to battle, had the form of the letter X on a blue ground. Saint Andrews, a city in Fifeshire, is noted as the seat of a Scottish university and as a center of the manufacture of golf clubs and balls. See Scotland