• PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 days ago

    Wait… just noticed… they spent a few centuries in war against Catholics but kept waving Catholic symbols as their flags?

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        For Andrew maybe, he is in the Bible, the other two are later “Catholic”/Western Latin-Church figures, but thank you, the protestant churches I know doesn’t recognize saints, I thought it was true for all of them.

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      St Patrick’s Saltire was added after the Act of Union 1800 when Ireland (whole thing) was merged into the UK, they never bothered to fix it after Irish independence in 1920.