30th of November - St Andrews Day
30th of November is the 334th day of the year
St Andrews Day:
Scotland adopted St Andrew as its patron saint because in the 8th century St Regulus is supposed to have brought relics of St Andrew to Fife – they are now to be found in the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Mary in Edinburgh, though many other reliquaries around Europe lay claim to having other relics of him. Andrew was an apostle and the brother of St Peter, who spread the gospel to Byzantium, Thrace and Greece, and perhaps as far as Ukraine. The tradition that he was martyred on an X-shaped cross led to the Scottish adoption of the saltire in their flag.
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