The Archive · 1923

The Gathering of the Clans

Nov 30.

On this day, sacred to the m-mary of St. Andrew and so given over to the fore gathering of Scotsmen, the disconcerting thought is introduced by one of our readers that St. Andrew ought not to be claimed by Scotland as its Patron Saint. The suggestion receives support by a reference to the ''Dictjon ary of Phrase and Fable'', for there it is laid down that-St. Rule, otherwise known as. St. Regulus, a monk of Patra in Achaia, ought to occupy that position, as he was the first to colonize its Metropolitan See and to convert the inhabitants, achieving this in. the year 370. At the same time St. Rule was apparently the individual res-

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