St. Andrew's Day

[Andrewson]

See this paragraph in the above link:



St. Andrew was also adopted as patron of the Scots because of this legend:



And that's the rest of the story...

T.

S
Sorry, I didn't read the page carefully enough. I read it as giving a tentative and uncertain account of the history based on legend rather than hard fact.

For some reason I read it as if the relics were lost in the shipwreck but something must have survived (or been substituted) for the legend of their landing in Killrymont in 600, at the latest, to have persisted to 1140 when the place was renamed St Andrews and the cathedral was started 20 years later. I really did forget how powerful legends can be if there are artifacts that can be associated with them.

I've learned something today - and all because I was wearing a kilt!