Why Scotland Honors Saint Andrew

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Sep 26, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 37.

Why Scotland Honors Saint Andrew

The only reason that the Catholic Scotch have for making the apostle Andrew the patron saint of Scotland is that his bones are buried there, or what are supposed to be his bones, said to be taken from Byzantium by a monk in 368. Tradition says that he met martyrdom at Patræ in A. D. 70. There he was buried till the fourth century, Is it the supposition that he will specially care for Scotland because his remains are there? Poor Scotia. The Good Book says, "The dead know not anything."