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Saint Andrew's Day

Saint Andrew's Day, also called the Feast of Saint Andrew or Andermas, is the feast day of Andrew the Apostle. It is celebrated on 30 November. Saint Andrew is the disciple in the New Testament who introduced his brother, the Apostle Peter, to Jesus, the Messiah.

Saint Andrew's Day
Henryk Siemiradzki. St. Andrew's Night – Fortune-telling, 1867
Observed byEastern Orthodox Church
Roman Catholic Church (traditional holy day of precept)
Anglican Communion
Presbyterianism
Patronal feast of Scotland
TypeReligious
National (in Scotland and Romania)
CelebrationsBank holiday (in Scotland, in Romania)
Date30 November (Western/Eastern Christianity)
FrequencyAnnual
Saint Andrew as patron saint of Scotland. Sculpture in Washington National Cathedral, Washington D.C.

Traditions and celebrations edit

Saint Andrew's Day marks the beginning of the traditional Advent devotion of the Saint Andrew Christmas Novena.[1]

Saint Andrew's Day (Scots: Saunt Andra's Day, Scottish Gaelic: Là Naomh Anndrais) is Scotland's official national day. It has been a national holiday in Romania since 2015. He is the patron saint of Cyprus, Scotland, Greece (City of Patras), Romania, Russia, Ukraine, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople,[2] San Andres Island (Colombia), Saint Andrew (Barbados) and Tenerife (Spain).

Scotland edit

The celebration of Saint Andrew as a national festival among some social strata and locales is thought to originate from the reign of Malcolm III (1058–1093). It was thought that the ritual slaughter of animals associated with Samhain was moved to this date to ensure enough animals were kept alive for winter.[3] Still, it is only in more recent times that 30 November has been given national holiday status, although it remains a normal working day.[4]

Bank holiday edit

In 2006, the Scottish Parliament passed the St. Andrew's Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Act 2007,[5] which designated the day as an official bank holiday. If 30 November falls on a weekend, the next Monday is a bank holiday instead. Although it is a "bank holiday", banks are not required to close (and, in practice, will remain open as normal), and employers are not required to give their employees the day off as a holiday. [6] Likewise, schools remain open. [7]

The University of St Andrews traditionally gives the day for all the students as a free holiday, but this is not a binding rule.[8]

Saltire edit

Saint Andrew's Day is an official flag day in Scotland. The Scottish Government's flag-flying regulations state that the flag of Scotland (the Saltire or Saint Andrew's Cross) shall fly on all its buildings with a flagpole.[9] Before 2002, the Scottish Government followed the UK Government's flag days and would fly the Saltire on Saint Andrew's Day only. The regulations were updated to state that the Union Flag would be removed and replaced by the Saltire on buildings with only one flagpole.[10]

The flying of the Union Flag from Edinburgh Castle on all days, including Saint Andrew's Day, causes anger among some Scottish politicians and Scottish nationalists who have argued that the Saltire should fly on 30 November instead.[11] However, the Union Flag is flown by the British Army at the Castle as it is an official British Army flag flying station.[12]

Celebrations edit

In Scotland and many countries with Scottish connections, Saint Andrew's Day is marked with a celebration of Scottish culture and traditional Scottish food and music. In Scotland, the day is also seen as the start of a season of Scottish winter festivals encompassing Saint Andrew's Day, Hogmanay and Burns Night.[13] There are week-long celebrations in the town of St Andrews and some other Scottish cities.[14]

Barbados edit

Saint Andrew's Day is celebrated as the national day of Independence in Barbados. As the patron saint, Saint Andrew is celebrated in some Barbadian symbols, including the cross formation of the Barbadian Coat of Arms, and the former Order of Barbados which styled recipients as Knight or Dame of St Andrew.[15]

Romania edit

There are a few pre-Christian Romanian traditions connected to Saint Andrew's Day, some of them having their origin in the Roman celebrations of the god Saturn, most famously the Saturnalia.[16][17][18]

The Dacian New Year took place from 14 November until 7 December; this was considered the interval when time began its course.[19] One of the elements that came from the Roman and Thracian celebrations concerned wolves. During this night, wolves can eat all the animals they want. It is said that they can speak, too, but anyone who hears them will soon die. Early on Saint Andrew's Day, the mothers go into the garden and gather tree branches, especially from apple, pear, cherry trees, and rosebush branches. They make a bunch of branches for each family member. The one whose bunch blooms by New Year's Day will be lucky and healthy the following year. The best-known tradition connected to this night concerns matrimony and premonitory dreams. Single girls must put a sprig or branch of sweet basil under their pillow. The girl will marry soon if someone takes the plants in their dreams. They can also plant wheat in a dish and water it until New Year's Day. The nicer the wheat looks that day, the better the year to come.[16]

Serbia edit

On Saint Andrew's Day in 1806, Serbs liberated Belgrade from Ottoman rule. On 12 December 1830 (St. Andrew's Day), the Hatt-i şerif was read before the assembly in Belgrade. The document has defined the autonomy of Serbia as a part of the Ottoman Empire, and the additional berat confirmed Prince Miloš as the hereditary ruler of the Serbian Principality. St. Andrew's Day was instituted as the Statehood Restoration Day and was celebrated during the rule of the Obrenović dynasty until 1903.

Saint Andrew's Eve edit

In parts of Ukraine, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Poland, Russia, and Romania, a superstitious belief exists that the night before Saint Andrew's Day is especially suitable for magic that reveals a young woman's future husband or that binds a future husband to her.[20] The day was believed to be the start of the most popular time for vampire activity, which would last until Saint George's Eve (22 April).[21]

In Poland, the holiday Andrzejki is celebrated on the night of the 29th through 30 November. Traditionally, the holiday was only observed by young single girls, though today, both young men and women join the party to see their futures.[22] The main ceremony involved pouring hot wax from a candle through the hole in a key into cold water.[20]

 
Saint Andrew's Chapel and rocks in Saint Andrew's Cape in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. In local mythology, Saint Andrew fished the souls of those drowned at sea and helped in fisheries and marriages.

In Romania, it is customary for young women to put 41 grains of wheat beneath their pillow before they go to sleep, and if they dream that someone is coming to steal their grains, they will get married next year. Also, in other parts of the country, the young women light a candle from Easter and bring it to a fountain at midnight. They ask Saint Andrew to let them glimpse their future husband. Saint Andrew is invoked to ward off wolves, who are thought to be able to eat any animal they want on this night and to speak to humans. A human hearing a wolf talk to him will die.[23] Saint Andrew is also the patron saint of Romania and the Romanian Orthodox Church.[24]

In Póvoa de Varzim, an ancient fishing town in northern Portugal, Cape Santo André (Portuguese for Saint Andrew) is a place that shows evidence of Romanisation and probable earlier importance, with hints of Stone Age paintings.[25] Near the cape there are small depressions in a rock, a mystery stone, that the people believe are the footprints of Saint Andrew. Saint Andrew's Chapel is of probable mediaeval origin, referenced in 1546 and earlier documents. It is the burial site of drowned fishermen found at the cape. Fishermen also requested intervention from the saint for better catches. Single girls wanting to get married threw a little stone to the chapel's roof, hoping it would lodge. Because of pagan syncretism, it has also been associated with white magic up to the present day. It was common to see groups of fishermen, holding lights in their hands, making a pilgrimage to the cape's chapel along the beach on Saint Andrew's Eve. They believed Saint Andrew fished, from the depths, the souls of the drowned. Those who did not visit Santo André in life would have to make the pilgrimage as a corpse.[26]

Eton College edit

St Andrew's Day has become one of the two biggest holidays marked at Eton College, the other being the Fourth of June.[27]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ . Archived from the original on 6 July 2019. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  2. ^ "Fast Facts about Saint Andrew's Day", Scotland.org; accessed 29 November 2017.
  3. ^ Folklore Myths and Legends of Britain (2 ed.). Great Britain: Reader's Digest Association Ltd. 1977. p. 22. ISBN 9780276000393.
  4. ^ "Is St Andrew's Day 2021 a bank holiday and do we get a day off?". The Herald. 17 November 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  5. ^ "Text of the Act, Office of Public Sector Information, National Archives". Opsi.gov.uk. 16 July 2010. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
  6. ^ "Scottish Government, Bank Holidays in Scotland – Frequently Asked Questions". gov.scot. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  7. ^ "Is St Andrew's Day 2021 a bank holiday and do we get a day off?". The Herald. 17 November 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  8. ^ Mullen, Stacey (30 November 2015). "Google turns Scottish for St Andrew's Day: A winking nessie and the saltire make up design". Glasgow Times. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  9. ^ Scotland.gov.uk- "Royal and Ceremonial".
  10. ^ "Ministers Agree Flag Day Review". BBC News. 20 May 2002. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
  11. ^ "Political Row over Flag Flying". BBC News. 9 October 2001. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
  12. ^ "Flag flying at Historic Environment Scotland 2019". www.historicenvironment.scot. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  13. ^ . educationscotland.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 13 January 2016.
  14. ^ Shelby, Barry (2011). Scotland For Dummies. John Wiley & Sons. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-118-05851-0.
  15. ^ . Archived from the original on 2 October 2008.
  16. ^ a b Tudor Pamfil, Mitologia poporului roman, Editura Saeculum, 2007
  17. ^ Maria Filipoiu, Traditii crestine si ritualuri populare romanesti, Ed. Paideia, 200×××←←9
  18. ^ "Saint Andrew, the protector of Romania". Twinkl.ro. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
  19. ^ Tudor Pamfil, Sărbătorile de toamnă şi postul Crăciunului – București, 1914, pp. 127–18
  20. ^ a b The Essential Guide to Being Polish. Steerforth Press. 2014. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-985-06231-6.
  21. ^ Dunwich, Gerina (2002). A Witch's Guide to Ghosts and the Supernatural. Career Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-1-564-14616-8.
  22. ^ "Andrzejki | November 29th | Eve of St. Andrew". www.local-life.com.
  23. ^ "St. Andrew's Day in Romania". 25 November 2008.
  24. ^ "Sfantul Andrei – Sarbatoare romaneasca". Desprecopii.com. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  25. ^ Amorim, Sandra Araújo (2004). Vencer o Mar, Ganhar a Terra. Na Linha do horizonte – Biblioteca Poveira CMPV.
  26. ^ "Resgatar das Almas" recupera peregrinação a Santo André, cm-pvarzim.pt; accessed 29 November 2017.(in Portuguese)
  27. ^ etoncollegecollections (20 November 2020). "St Andrew's Day at Eton College". Eton College Collections. Retrieved 30 November 2022.

External links edit

  • Saint Andrew on Electric Scotland
  • St Andrew's Day 2019: How did a fisherman become Scotland's patron saint?
  • Culture.pl: The Polish Tradition of Andrzejki

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Saint Andrew s Day also called the Feast of Saint Andrew or Andermas is the feast day of Andrew the Apostle It is celebrated on 30 November Saint Andrew is the disciple in the New Testament who introduced his brother the Apostle Peter to Jesus the Messiah Saint Andrew s DayHenryk Siemiradzki St Andrew s Night Fortune telling 1867Observed byEastern Orthodox ChurchRoman Catholic Church traditional holy day of precept Anglican CommunionPresbyterianismPatronal feast of ScotlandTypeReligiousNational in Scotland and Romania CelebrationsBank holiday in Scotland in Romania Date30 November Western Eastern Christianity FrequencyAnnualSaint Andrew as patron saint of Scotland Sculpture in Washington National Cathedral Washington D C Contents 1 Traditions and celebrations 2 Scotland 2 1 Bank holiday 2 2 Saltire 2 3 Celebrations 3 Barbados 4 Romania 5 Serbia 6 Saint Andrew s Eve 7 Eton College 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksTraditions and celebrations editSaint Andrew s Day marks the beginning of the traditional Advent devotion of the Saint Andrew Christmas Novena 1 Saint Andrew s Day Scots Saunt Andra s Day Scottish Gaelic La Naomh Anndrais is Scotland s official national day It has been a national holiday in Romania since 2015 He is the patron saint of Cyprus Scotland Greece City of Patras Romania Russia Ukraine the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople 2 San Andres Island Colombia Saint Andrew Barbados and Tenerife Spain Scotland editThe celebration of Saint Andrew as a national festival among some social strata and locales is thought to originate from the reign of Malcolm III 1058 1093 It was thought that the ritual slaughter of animals associated with Samhain was moved to this date to ensure enough animals were kept alive for winter 3 Still it is only in more recent times that 30 November has been given national holiday status although it remains a normal working day 4 Bank holiday edit In 2006 the Scottish Parliament passed the St Andrew s Day Bank Holiday Scotland Act 2007 5 which designated the day as an official bank holiday If 30 November falls on a weekend the next Monday is a bank holiday instead Although it is a bank holiday banks are not required to close and in practice will remain open as normal and employers are not required to give their employees the day off as a holiday 6 Likewise schools remain open 7 The University of St Andrews traditionally gives the day for all the students as a free holiday but this is not a binding rule 8 Saltire edit Saint Andrew s Day is an official flag day in Scotland The Scottish Government s flag flying regulations state that the flag of Scotland the Saltire or Saint Andrew s Cross shall fly on all its buildings with a flagpole 9 Before 2002 the Scottish Government followed the UK Government s flag days and would fly the Saltire on Saint Andrew s Day only The regulations were updated to state that the Union Flag would be removed and replaced by the Saltire on buildings with only one flagpole 10 The flying of the Union Flag from Edinburgh Castle on all days including Saint Andrew s Day causes anger among some Scottish politicians and Scottish nationalists who have argued that the Saltire should fly on 30 November instead 11 However the Union Flag is flown by the British Army at the Castle as it is an official British Army flag flying station 12 Celebrations edit In Scotland and many countries with Scottish connections Saint Andrew s Day is marked with a celebration of Scottish culture and traditional Scottish food and music In Scotland the day is also seen as the start of a season of Scottish winter festivals encompassing Saint Andrew s Day Hogmanay and Burns Night 13 There are week long celebrations in the town of St Andrews and some other Scottish cities 14 Barbados editSaint Andrew s Day is celebrated as the national day of Independence in Barbados As the patron saint Saint Andrew is celebrated in some Barbadian symbols including the cross formation of the Barbadian Coat of Arms and the former Order of Barbados which styled recipients as Knight or Dame of St Andrew 15 Romania editThere are a few pre Christian Romanian traditions connected to Saint Andrew s Day some of them having their origin in the Roman celebrations of the god Saturn most famously the Saturnalia 16 17 18 The Dacian New Year took place from 14 November until 7 December this was considered the interval when time began its course 19 One of the elements that came from the Roman and Thracian celebrations concerned wolves During this night wolves can eat all the animals they want It is said that they can speak too but anyone who hears them will soon die Early on Saint Andrew s Day the mothers go into the garden and gather tree branches especially from apple pear cherry trees and rosebush branches They make a bunch of branches for each family member The one whose bunch blooms by New Year s Day will be lucky and healthy the following year The best known tradition connected to this night concerns matrimony and premonitory dreams Single girls must put a sprig or branch of sweet basil under their pillow The girl will marry soon if someone takes the plants in their dreams They can also plant wheat in a dish and water it until New Year s Day The nicer the wheat looks that day the better the year to come 16 Serbia editOn Saint Andrew s Day in 1806 Serbs liberated Belgrade from Ottoman rule On 12 December 1830 St Andrew s Day the Hatt i serif was read before the assembly in Belgrade The document has defined the autonomy of Serbia as a part of the Ottoman Empire and the additional berat confirmed Prince Milos as the hereditary ruler of the Serbian Principality St Andrew s Day was instituted as the Statehood Restoration Day and was celebrated during the rule of the Obrenovic dynasty until 1903 Saint Andrew s Eve editIn parts of Ukraine Germany Austria Slovakia Poland Russia and Romania a superstitious belief exists that the night before Saint Andrew s Day is especially suitable for magic that reveals a young woman s future husband or that binds a future husband to her 20 The day was believed to be the start of the most popular time for vampire activity which would last until Saint George s Eve 22 April 21 In Poland the holiday Andrzejki is celebrated on the night of the 29th through 30 November Traditionally the holiday was only observed by young single girls though today both young men and women join the party to see their futures 22 The main ceremony involved pouring hot wax from a candle through the hole in a key into cold water 20 nbsp Saint Andrew s Chapel and rocks in Saint Andrew s Cape in Povoa de Varzim Portugal In local mythology Saint Andrew fished the souls of those drowned at sea and helped in fisheries and marriages In Romania it is customary for young women to put 41 grains of wheat beneath their pillow before they go to sleep and if they dream that someone is coming to steal their grains they will get married next year Also in other parts of the country the young women light a candle from Easter and bring it to a fountain at midnight They ask Saint Andrew to let them glimpse their future husband Saint Andrew is invoked to ward off wolves who are thought to be able to eat any animal they want on this night and to speak to humans A human hearing a wolf talk to him will die 23 Saint Andrew is also the patron saint of Romania and the Romanian Orthodox Church 24 In Povoa de Varzim an ancient fishing town in northern Portugal Cape Santo Andre Portuguese for Saint Andrew is a place that shows evidence of Romanisation and probable earlier importance with hints of Stone Age paintings 25 Near the cape there are small depressions in a rock a mystery stone that the people believe are the footprints of Saint Andrew Saint Andrew s Chapel is of probable mediaeval origin referenced in 1546 and earlier documents It is the burial site of drowned fishermen found at the cape Fishermen also requested intervention from the saint for better catches Single girls wanting to get married threw a little stone to the chapel s roof hoping it would lodge Because of pagan syncretism it has also been associated with white magic up to the present day It was common to see groups of fishermen holding lights in their hands making a pilgrimage to the cape s chapel along the beach on Saint Andrew s Eve They believed Saint Andrew fished from the depths the souls of the drowned Those who did not visit Santo Andre in life would have to make the pilgrimage as a corpse 26 Eton College editSt Andrew s Day has become one of the two biggest holidays marked at Eton College the other being the Fourth of June 27 See also editPortals nbsp Holidays nbsp Saints Calendar of saints General Roman CalendarReferences edit Christmas Anticipation Prayer EWTN Archived from the original on 6 July 2019 Retrieved 30 November 2016 Fast Facts about Saint Andrew s Day Scotland org accessed 29 November 2017 Folklore Myths and Legends of Britain 2 ed Great Britain Reader s Digest Association Ltd 1977 p 22 ISBN 9780276000393 Is St Andrew s Day 2021 a bank holiday and do we get a day off The Herald 17 November 2021 Retrieved 30 November 2021 Text of the Act Office of Public Sector Information National Archives Opsi gov uk 16 July 2010 Retrieved 30 November 2010 Scottish Government Bank Holidays in Scotland Frequently Asked Questions gov scot Retrieved 30 November 2017 Is St Andrew s Day 2021 a bank holiday and do we get a day off The Herald 17 November 2021 Retrieved 30 November 2021 Mullen Stacey 30 November 2015 Google turns Scottish for St Andrew s Day A winking nessie and the saltire make up design Glasgow Times Retrieved 30 October 2020 Scotland gov uk Royal and Ceremonial Ministers Agree Flag Day Review BBC News 20 May 2002 Retrieved 30 November 2010 Political Row over Flag Flying BBC News 9 October 2001 Retrieved 30 November 2010 Flag flying at Historic Environment Scotland 2019 www historicenvironment scot Retrieved 4 December 2019 St Andrew s Day 30 November educationscotland gov uk Archived from the original on 13 January 2016 Shelby Barry 2011 Scotland For Dummies John Wiley amp Sons p 52 ISBN 978 1 118 05851 0 The Barbado Parliament Archived from the original on 2 October 2008 a b Tudor Pamfil Mitologia poporului roman Editura Saeculum 2007 Maria Filipoiu Traditii crestine si ritualuri populare romanesti Ed Paideia 200 9 Saint Andrew the protector of Romania Twinkl ro Retrieved 8 August 2023 Tudor Pamfil Sărbătorile de toamnă si postul Crăciunului București 1914 pp 127 18 a b The Essential Guide to Being Polish Steerforth Press 2014 p 175 ISBN 978 0 985 06231 6 Dunwich Gerina 2002 A Witch s Guide to Ghosts and the Supernatural Career Press p 171 ISBN 978 1 564 14616 8 Andrzejki November 29th Eve of St Andrew www local life com St Andrew s Day in Romania 25 November 2008 Sfantul Andrei Sarbatoare romaneasca Desprecopii com Retrieved 30 November 2012 Amorim Sandra Araujo 2004 Vencer o Mar Ganhar a Terra Na Linha do horizonte Biblioteca Poveira CMPV Resgatar das Almas recupera peregrinacao a Santo Andre cm pvarzim pt accessed 29 November 2017 in Portuguese etoncollegecollections 20 November 2020 St Andrew s Day at Eton College Eton College Collections Retrieved 30 November 2022 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to St Andrew s Day Saint Andrew on Electric Scotland St Andrew s Day 2019 How did a fisherman become Scotland s patron saint Culture pl The Polish Tradition of Andrzejki Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Saint Andrew 27s Day amp oldid 1214327600, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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