{"id":1098,"date":"2020-11-30T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2020-11-18T11:02:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T11:02:56","slug":"st-andrews-day-30-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2020\/11\/30\/st-andrews-day-30-november\/","title":{"rendered":"St Andrew&#8217;s Day 30 November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1105 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/11\/Wilson_Bay_-_St_Andrew_-_South_Nave_Bay_F_-_National_Cathedral_-_DC-174x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/11\/Wilson_Bay_-_St_Andrew_-_South_Nave_Bay_F_-_National_Cathedral_-_DC-174x300.jpg 174w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/11\/Wilson_Bay_-_St_Andrew_-_South_Nave_Bay_F_-_National_Cathedral_-_DC.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 85vw, 174px\" \/>Andrew, also called\u00a0Saint Andrew\u00a0the Apostle, (died 60\/70 ce, Patras, Achaia [Greece]) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and the brother of\u00a0St. Peter. He is the\u00a0patron saint of\u00a0Scotland and of Russia, as well as other countries including Greece, Barbados and Romania.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1102 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/11\/st-andrews-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The celebration of Saint Andrew as a national festival is thought to originate from the reign of Malcolm III (1034\u20131093). It was thought that ritual slaughter of animals associated with Samhain (a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter) was moved to this date so as to assure enough animals were kept alive for winter.<\/p>\n<p>Some foods traditionally eaten on St Andrew\u2019s Day include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Traditional Scottish Cullen Skink<\/li>\n<li>Scottish Smoked Haddock Bake<\/li>\n<li>Vegetarian haggis with whisky glazed turnip pearls straw potatoes with chive and malt cream sauce<\/li>\n<li>Spiced winter fruit served with creamed vanilla rice pudding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1099\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/11\/cullen-skink.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1100\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/11\/smoked-haddock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"178\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1104\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/11\/veg-haggis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1101\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2020\/11\/spiced-winter-fruit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"184\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew, also called\u00a0Saint Andrew\u00a0the Apostle, (died 60\/70 ce, Patras, Achaia [Greece]) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and the brother of\u00a0St. Peter. He is the\u00a0patron saint of\u00a0Scotland and of Russia, as well as other countries including Greece, Barbados and Romania. The celebration of Saint Andrew as a national festival is thought to originate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2020\/11\/30\/st-andrews-day-30-november\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;St Andrew&#8217;s Day 30 November&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":1103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}