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  • St Andrew and Scythia June 13, 2011

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Medieval
    St Andrew and Scythia

    Patron saints have a strange habit of not coming from the countries that they are supposed to represent. England’s Saint George was Syrian, St Patrick was born not in Ireland but in Britain, Portugal’s patron saint lived all his life in northern Italy… Usually there is a logical enough explanation. St George, for instance, was […]