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April 20, 2005
The St Andrew connection
Simon Young in AD500: A Journey Through the Dark Isles of Britain and Ireland is suggesting that the bones of St Andrew (Christ’s first disciple) never reached these shores. Adoption of the saint seems to have been due to some kind of ethnic confusion on the part of the Picts who failed to distinguish between Scandanavia and Scythia. This presumably vindicates John Knox and his followers who threw the supposed relics out of St Andrews Cathedral.
Perhaps this makes the idea of having St Andrew’s Day (30 November) as a national holiday less attractive?
www.theherald.co.uk/news/37556-print.shtml
Posted by Simon Holledge at April 20, 2005 12:48 AM
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