Saint Andrew's Day Saint Andrew's Day Saint Andrew's Day is the feast day of Saint Andrew. It is celebrated on 30 November. Saint Andrew's Day (, ) is Scotland's official national day. It is a national holiday in Romania (since 2015). Saint Andrew is represented in the New Testament to be the disciple who introduced his brother, the Apostle Peter, to Jesus as the Messiah. He is the patron saint of Cyprus, Scotland, Greece, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, San Andres Island (Colombia), Saint Andrew (Barbados) and Tenerife. In Germany, the feast day is celebrated as "Andreasnacht" ("(St.) Andrew's Night"),
The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew is a 1628 painting by Jusepe de Ribera. Ribera had been introduced to the realism of Caravaggio. "Saint Andrew" shows its major influence on him, particularly that artist's "Crucifixion of Saint Peter". The work was owned by Juan Alfonso Enríquez de Cabrera, Admiral of Castille, until it was inherited by his son Juan Gaspar Enríquez de Cabrera in 1647. It was later donated to the monastery of San Pascual in Madrid. After the French occupied Spain, the work came into the hands of Andrés del Peral around 1816. About two