St. Andrew (RLS 01) with Flag of Cyprus Feast Day Postcard

While Scotland is the most famous example of a country under the patronage of St. Andrew, it is by no means the only one. St. Andrew is also the Patron Saint of Barbados, Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine. Here, St. Andrew, clad in a dark pink robe and olive-green mantle with an aqua lining, stands in front of a large, wooden x-shaped cross or saltire which was the instrument of his martyrdom c. 70. Beside him is the flag of Cyprus. + Feast: November 30 + Image Source (RLS 01): Figural detail extracted from an antique image of St. Andrew the Apostle in chromolithography with gilt accents from Red Letter Saints: Being a Series of Biographies of those Saints for which Proper Collects, Epistles and Gospels are appointed in the Book of Common Prayer. Printed by E. Kaufmann, Lahr, Baden, Germany, for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge / S.P.C.K. (London, 1911), p. 6. From the designer’s private library. + Image Credit (Flag of Cyprus): Flag of Cyprus (bordered), Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons.