The Feast of St Andrew falls today. In the painting below St Andrew holds the Scottish cross - the Saltaire an X - is symbolic and long ago, Scots regarded using the typical cross as sacrilegious. The painting below that is the National Poet of Scotland Robert Burns (L) and sitting, to the right, a young Walter Scott in Sibbald’s bookshop, Edinburgh. A happy St Andrew's Day to Scots around the World and to those who love them.
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