Tour Scotland Video The Saltire Flag Flying St Andrew's Day Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of an illuminated Saltire Flag flying on the wall of a church on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip Perth, Perthshire. The Flag of Scotland, called The Saltire or Saint Andrew's Cross, is a blue field with a white saltire. According to tradition, it represents Saint Andrew, who is supposed to have been crucified on a cross of that form, called a crux decussata, at Patras. The flag is in the form of a diagonal cross, like the shape of the letter X in Roman type. Saltires are also seen in several other flags, including the flags of Grenada, Jamaica, Alabama, Florida, Jersey, Logroño, Vitoria, Amsterdam, Breda, Katwijk, Potchefstroom and Valdivia, as well as the former Indian princely states of Khairpur, Rajkot and Jaora. The design is also part of the Confederate Battle Flag and Naval Jack used during the American Civil War. Arthur L. Rogers, designer of the final version of the Confederate National flag, claimed that it was based off the saltire of Scotland.

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