St Andra's Day

St Andra's Day (Scots Gaelic Là Naomh Anndrais/Latha Naomh Anndra) is the feast day o Saunt Andra an is celebrate on 30t November ilka yeir.

Saunt Andra wis yin o Jesus Christ's first disypils an is the patron saunt o Scotland, syne 1320, an St Andra's Day is Scotland's offeicial naitional day. In 2006, the Scots Pairlament waled ti mak the day a Bank Haliday. 

Syn 2002, St Andra's Day haes been Scotland's offeicial banner day anaw, the Saltire Banner. It in the form o the cross o Saunt Andra, as he wis mairtyred but evitit bein seen as awnin aqualness tae Jesus an sae chase tae dee oan a saltire (X-shapit ruid). The Saltire wul flee frae aw Scots Govrenment biggins wi a bannerpaul. Houme'er, Unitit Kinrick Govrenment biggins in Scotland wul flee the Union Banner, an anerlie flee the Saltire Banner gin thar is mair nor the ae bannerpul.

In ithir kintras
The 30t November has been a national holiday in Roumainie syne 2015. The apostle Andra is the patron saint o Cyprus, Scotland, Greece (The ceetie o Patras wis whaur he dee'd), Roumainie, Roushie, Ukraine, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, San Andres Island (Colombie), Saunt Andra (Barbados) and Tenerife (Spainie).

In Germany, the feast day hauds as Andreasnacht ("St Andra's Nicht"), in Austrik wi the custom of Andreasgebet ("St Andra's Prayer"), an in Poland as Andrzejki ("Andra's"). In pairts o thir kintras – alangsyd the Czechie, Slovakie an Romanie – the nicht afore St Andra's Day is seen as bein guid for lassies prattikin weirderie for ti finnd oot wha wul be thair guidman. Ae haunt is for the lassie ti horse a widden shae ower hir shouder. Gin it launds pyntin towarts the dure, it meins she wul be waddit that yeir. Ither lassies wul pour meltit leid intil a bowl o wattir - the thinkin bein that the leid wul furm intil a shape connectit ti hir futur guidman's perfaision.

In sum pairts o Czechie an Slovakie, yung lassies wad write doun the names o potential guidmen on wee bits o paper an stik thir inti wee bits o daich, cried Halusky. Whan kuikit, the first ane ti flotter til the surfass o the wattir wad kyth the name o thair futur guidman.

St Andra is the naitional saunt o Romanians an the Romanian Orthodox Kirk anaw.Sfantul Andrei - Sarbatoare romaneasca - autor: Desprecopii.com In Romanie, it is the haunt for yung lassies ti pit  41 pikkils o wheat anaith thair pilla afore thay gang ti sleep, an gin thay dreim that oniebodie is cumin ti theif thair pikkils that meins that thay ar gaun ti git waddit neist yeir. In sum ither pairts o the kintra the lassies licht a caunil frae the Pace an bring it, at midnicht, til a funtin. Thay frain St Andra ti lat thaim glisk thair futur guidman. 

St Andra's Day is celebrate as the naitional day o Unthirldom in Barbados. As the patron saunt o Barbados, St Andra hauds in a nummer o Barbadian simbols lik the cross on the Coat o Airms, an the state's naitional honors seistim, that styls fowk as Knichts or Dames o St Andra. St Andra is forby the patron saunt o fishers.

Referenses

Fremmit airtins
Page anent St. Andra's Day
Scots Pairliament page anent the St. Andra's Day Bank Holiday Bill 

Category:Andra the Apostle
Category:Catholic haly days
Category:Scots cultur
Category:Halidays in Scotland
Category:Fowk calendar o the East Slavs
Category:Naitional days
Category:November observances
Category:Saunts days
Category:Autumn events in Scotland
Category:Autumn holidays (Northren Hemisphere)
Category:Ware holidays (Soothren Hemisphere)