Happy St Andrew's Day
Happy St Andrew's Day 2023!
We especially salute the Scottish Diaspora, represented this year by the arms of the St Andrew's Society of the State of Sao Paolo, Brazil, now celebrating its 100th year.
Blazon: Azure a saltire Argent between in chief a thistle slipped and leaved Argent, in base a sword paleways between two branches of laurel of the Last, and in each flank four sprigs of rue in saltire Or. Above the shield on a wreath of the liveries is set for crest a castellated coronet Or masoned Sable ports Gules and issuant therefrom on poles in saltire the national flags of Scotland and Brazil.
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St Andrew's Society of Sacramento:
Argent, issuing from a camellia flower Gules leaved Vert in base a capitol dome Sable between a pile issuant from the chief and each flank Azure.
2015 vol.90 folio 80
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St Andrew's Society of San Francisco:
Azure a saltire Argent surmounted of a phoenix issuant from flames Proper.
1989 vol 62 folio 5
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St Andrew's Society of Atlanta:
Azure a saltire Argent eight slips of dogwood (Cornus florida) in orle Proper each flowered of one flower Argent.
2001 vol. 81 fol. 51
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St Andrew's Society of Florida:
Parted per pale dexter Azure a saltire Argent surmounted of an unicorn’s head of the Second horned and maned Or within and issuant from a chaplet of thistles Proper showing four thistle heads Purpure (for the World Federation of Scottish Societies); sinister a palm tree Proper growing out of a mount in base vert surmounted of an alligator fessways Proper (for the St Andrew Society of Florida).
1970 Vol. 50 folio 111
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St Andrew's Society of Los Angeles:
Azure a saltire Argent cantoned between in chief a demi-angel hands conjoined and elevated upon the breast and wings displayed., in the flanks two fleurs-de-lys and in base a grizzly bear (urs horribilis) passant Or.
1988 vol 69 folio 95
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St Andrew's Society of Middle South (Alabama):
Argent a saltire Gules in chief a sprig of thistle Proper and in base on a hurt a saltire Argent.
2004 vol 81 folio 93
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St Andrew's Society of New York:
Gules a tall ship under sail hull Sable, sails Argent encircled by five mullets Or, on a chief Azure a saltire Argent charged with a red apple Proper.
2005 Vol. 81 folio 99
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St Andrew's Society of Tuscaloosa:
Per pale Azure and Argent a saltire per pale Argent and Gules surmounted of a wreath of thistles Proper.
1984 vol. 62 folio 105
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St Andrew's Society of Washington DC:
Parted per pale, dexter Azure a saltire Argent; sinister on a field of the Last barry of two Gules in chief three mullets Gules and on a chief of the Last a thistle slipped and leaved between two mullets Or.
1994 vol. 79 folio 6
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