Tour Scotland Video Scots Celebrating St Andrew’s Day Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Scots celebrating St Andrew’s Day on a very cold day in the city centre on King Edward Street on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Saint Andrew is Scotland's patron saint. In Scotland, and many countries with Scottish connections, Saint Andrew's Day is marked with a celebration of Scottish culture with traditional Scottish food, music and dance. The celebration of Saint Andrew as a national festival is thought to originate from the reign of King Malcolm III. Saint Andrew's Day is the feast day of Saint Andrew who is represented in the New Testament to be the disciple who introduced his brother, the Apostle Peter, to Jesus as the Messiah. He is the patron saint of Cyprus, Scotland, Greece, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, San Andres Island, Colombia, Saint Andrew, Barbados, and Tenerife. In Germany, the feast day is celebrated as Andreasnacht, in Austria with the custom of Andreasgebet, and in Poland as Andrzejki, in Russia as Андреева ночь.

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