What has made him invulnerable as patron saint, however, is his saltire symbol on our flag, the sign of our nationhood. |
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The new design added the red saltire cross attributed to St. Patrick for Ireland. |
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Legend has it that St Andrew was martyred by the Romans on a saltire cross at Patras in Greece. |
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The saltire is counterchanged to combine it with the saltire of St. Andrew. |
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The smooth concrete of the distinctly Kahnian vaults is impressed with a pattern of abstract saltire crosses created using basic rubber moulds. |
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Nicknamed The Highlander, he had already caused a stir at the Games, dyeing his hair blue and white to resemble the saltire. |
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Ed Miliband wrapping himself in a fricking saltire wasn't the moment when things really started to feel wrong. |
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The division of the shield by the saltire partition lines evokes the Greek letter chi, the initial letter of the name of Christ in Greek. |
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If the red saltire had simply been placed over the white, it might have simply appeared to be a red saltire with a white border, rather than two saltires combined. |
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The crest combines two of the important symbols from the arms, with the trillium cross in saltire to reflect the division line of the arms. |
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The saltire pattern of the shield and the colours of blue and white allude to the Scottish birth of both his parents. |
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Grampian also gets a new logo to replace its trademark saltire. |
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Someone has added a small saltire to one of the wreaths, paying tribute to a shared history that was forged in battle. |
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As the fans streamed to the exits, one couple were wearily packing their saltire flag into a backpack. |
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The saltire placement of the keys alludes to the cross of St. Andrew and thus to Scottish heritage. |
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He is proudly clasping his gold medal, draped in the Scottish flag and wearing an enormous blue floppy top hat emblazoned with a brilliant white saltire. |
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The use of the saltire is taken from the arms of the Chief of the clan Malcolm, who uses a blue saltire on white. |
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The interlaced bands echo the saltire cross from the Bank of Montreal's arms, and are a reference to his tenure at this institution. |
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James himself adopted the new style of King of Great Britain and designed a new flag, incorporating the St Andrew's saltire and the St George's cross. |
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The fimbriation of the cross of St George separates its red from the red of the saltire. |
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The red saltire of St Patrick is offset such that it does not relegate the white saltire of St Andrew to a mere border. |
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St Andrew's saltire has the higher position at the hoist side with St Patrick's saltire in the higher position on the opposite side. |
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Other Scottish bodies, both private and public, have also used the saltire in similar ways. |
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Several flags outside of the United Kingdom are based on the Scottish saltire. |
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There is some evidence that a similar saltire was occasionally used to represent Ireland before this. |
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The saltire has occasionally served unofficially to represent Northern Ireland and been considered less contentious than other flags flown there. |
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The red saltire flag does not appear upon Ireland itself, though it is placed upon the neighbouring Mulls of Galloway and Kintyre in Scotland. |
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It is possible that the design of the flag was influenced by the red saltire. |
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A 1612 seal of Trinity College, Dublin shows uncoloured cross and saltire flags. |
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A 1645 picture map of the Siege of Duncannon shows Preston's Irish Confederates under a saltire. |
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A red saltire on green appears on the flag of Berwick's regiment in the Irish Brigade of the French army. |
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Other crosses besides the red saltire have been associated with Saint Patrick. |
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The badge of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, designed by John Vinycomb, incorporates the saltire and the arms of the four provinces. |
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The arms were granted by Arthur Vicars in 1901, based on a 1612 seal showing uncoloured cross and saltire flags. |
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A red saltire also appears on the arms of County Kildare, but this is because of the association of Kildare with the Fitzgerald family. |
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The original arms of the Royal Irish Academy in 1786 did not have the saltire, but those granted in 1846 do. |
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Rogers, designer of the final version of the Confederate National flag, claimed that it was based off the saltire of Scotland. |
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Behind the shield there are in saltire the episcopal crosier and patriarchal baton on one side and the patriarchal cross and doctoral baton on the other. |
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Per saltire argent and gules, a saltire engrailed between in pale two dexter hands fesswise couped each grasping a cross crosslet fitchy and in fess two thistles slipped and leaved all counterchanged. |
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Sable, an ox's head caboshed argent armed or, sinister horn broken at tip argent, two hammers crossed in saltire or and argent heads counterchanged. |
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A rain-drenched saltire hung limply on a flagpost in the backcourt. |
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Archbishops have two crosiers in saltire behind the shield. |
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The white saltire cross on blue is known as the cross of St. Andrew and it indicates the Scottish and Church of Scotland heritage of the founders of the congregation. |
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The two swords in saltire allude to the location in Nova Scotia of the yacht clubs that Mr. Apold has helped by holding membership or leadership roles. |
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It carried the jewel in saltire, certain to be so protected from wounds. |
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Standing in the middle of the choir, the Bishop then traced the letters of the Greek and Latin alphabets in the ash that has been placed in saltire on the ground. |
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Since 1606 the saltire has also formed part of the design of the Union Flag. |
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A saltire was intermittently used as a symbol of Ireland from the seventeenth century, but without reference to Saint Patrick. |
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The saltire as a symbol of Mercia may have been in use since the time of King Offa. |
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By the 13th century, the saltire had become the attributed arms of the Kingdom of Mercia. |
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This red saltire on a white field was used to represent Ireland in the flag of the United Kingdom. |
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The new design added a red saltire, the cross of Saint Patrick, for Ireland. |
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This is counterchanged with the saltire of St Andrew, such that the white always follows the red clockwise. |
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As with the red cross, so too the red saltire is separated by a white fimbriation from the blue field. |
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This fimbriation is repeated for symmetry on the white portion of the saltire, which thereby appears wider than the red portion. |
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The saltire was incorporated in the badge of the Reform Movement, for some time after its inception in 1998, but this no longer so prominent. |
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The flag of Jersey has unknown origins, and a link with St Patrick's saltire has been proposed. |
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The Flag of Florida is a red saltire on a white field, with the state seal in the centre. |
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The Shanghai International Municipality used a flag with a red saltire on a white field, with its seal in the middle. |
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The arms of West Dunbartonshire derive from the former arms of the burgh of Clydebank, including a red saltire as the arms of Lennox. |
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The Scottish flag is blue with a white saltire, and represents the cross of Saint Andrew. |
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Divinity students wear a black undergraduate gown with a purple saltire cross on the left facing. |
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The saltire is also the flag of Tenerife, the former flag of Galicia and the Russian Navy Ensign. |
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A saltire, also called Saint Andrew's Cross, is a heraldic symbol in the form of a diagonal cross, like the shape of the letter X in Roman type. |
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A warning sign in the shape of a saltire is also used to indicate the point at which a railway line intersects a road at a level crossing. |
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The Flag of Scotland, called The Saltire or Saint Andrew's Cross, is a blue field with a white saltire. |
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The international maritime signal flag for M is a white saltire on a blue background, and indicates a stopped vessel. |
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The red stripe was replaced with a saltire blue stripe, and the InterCity name was replaced with the ScotRail name. |
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Diminutive forms include the fillet saltire, usually considered half or less the width of the saltire, and the saltorel, a narrow or couped saltire. |
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Patrick's High School, Ottawa has the saltire in its flag and arms. |
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The ratio of the width of the bars of the saltire in relation to the width of the field is specified in heraldry in relation to shield width rather than flag width. |
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Other flags exist which feature a red saltire on a white field. |
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In heraldic language, it may be blazoned azure, a saltire argent. |
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Various shades of blue have been used in the saltire over the years. |
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The Florida Department of State calls this saltire a Saint Andrew's Cross. |
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The earliest reference to the Saint Andrew's Cross as a flag is found in the Vienna Book of Hours, circa 1503, in which a white saltire is depicted with a red background. |
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The saltire also appears in the coat of arms of the County Mayo town of Westport to commemorate the visit of St Patrick to the nearby mountain, Croagh Patrick. |
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With the 1800 Act of Union that merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, the red saltire was incorporated into the Flag of the United Kingdom as representing Ireland. |
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The use of a saltire in association with St Patrick was controversial because it differed from the usual crosses by custom worn on St Patrick's Day. |
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In heraldic language, it may be blazoned Argent, a saltire gules. |
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However, in this case the saltire is not the only emblem to be portrayed. |
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The white saltire set against a celestial blue background is said to have been adopted as the design of the flag of Scotland on the basis of this legend. |
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