St Andrew’s Day 2021 Road Trip Drive With Music To Visit The Cathedral In St Andrews Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland late Autumn early Winter travel video of a road trip drive, with beautiful Scottish music, on St Andrew’s Day 2021 30 November, along South Street on ancestry, genealogy, family history to visit the cathedral ruins in St Andrews in North East Fife. Saint Andrew was a Galilean fisherman before he and his brother Simon Peter became disciples of Jesus Christ. He was crucified by the Romans on an X-shaped cross at Patras in Greece and, hundreds of years later, his remains were moved to Constantinople and then, in the 13th century, to Amalfi in southern Italy where they are kept to this day. Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, Greece, Russia, Romania, and Barbados. St Andrew is celebrated on 30 November every year – the same day he was crucified in 60 AD.. Saint Andrew’s Saltire Cross have been ingrained in Scottish national symbolism since, but he was only properly established as Scotland’s patron saint in 1320 with the Declaration of Arbroath. The cathedral was built in 1158 and became the centre of the Medieval Catholic Church in Scotland as the seat of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and the Bishops and Archbishops of St Andrews. It fell into disuse and ruin after Catholic mass was outlawed during the 16th century. In 1160, it was the most important centre of pilgrimage in medieval Scotland and one of the most important in Europe. Pilgrims from all over Scotland came in large numbers hoping to be blessed, and in many cases to be cured, at the shrine of Saint Andrew All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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