Aberdeen Breviary, summer part (Edinburgh: Chepman & Myllar, 1509-10). Latin office text, extracted from the proprium sanctorum. Contains the end of the office of St Olaf and the office of St Regulus (Rule) — the translation of St Andrew’s relics to Scotland.

[End of the office of St Olaf:] … and not fearing their bloody hands, they came cruelly with hostile arms, swords and staves, most cruelly to slay him; and the most tender members of his body they made to run with rose-red blood. Lesson 5.

Now the ministers of the blessed Olaf washed the body with warm water and gave it over honourably to burial. And it happened that in that warm water mingled with blood, a blind man fell into the vessel in which the ministers had washed the relics of the blessed one; and finding it he anointed his eyes with the blood and water, whereupon at once his sight was restored by the merits of the blessed man. Moreover the miracle being made known, a certain man whose tongue had been cut out by his enemies for the sake of the blessed Olaf, being taken and kept in mind, when prayer was made recovered his former speech; and he bound himself perpetually thereafter in the church; and men wonderfully maimed and restored through the merits of the blessed Olaf were made sound and whole. Lesson 6.

Now moreover the Emperor Constantine, undertaking war against the kings of the pagans in Constantinople, when in the battle the blessed Olaf with all his own appeared amid the array — they had prayed that through his help they might ever be prospered; and without any delay the blessed Olaf was seen as standard-bearer going before the army of the emperor; and at once all the pagans were turned to flight, and the emperor was freed from their servitude, and a glorious triumph and the palm of victory was won. The rest all of the Common of one martyr, with prayer and commemoration as above.

“O everlasting God, who did will that the glorious merits of the blessed Regulus your confessor and abbot should be borne to us with the relics of your most meek apostle Andrew: grant, we beseech you, that by his glorious merits interceding we may be worthy to be borne from earthly things to heavenly. Through the Lord.” At Matins, nine lessons. Lesson 1.

When Constantius, emperor of the Romans, was happily reigning, in the three hundred and forty-fourth year from the virgin’s parturition of our salvation, in the region of Achaia, in a notable city of the same region named Patras, a man of great sanctity and devotion named Regulus shone happily in miracles; and of the blessed Andrew the apostle, the most worthy patron of the Scots’ glorious region, the bones and relics — in the city in which the blessed Andrew himself suffered martyrdom he was the most faithful keeper. Lesson 2.

Hereafter, when the said Constantius had purposed to avenge the death of the blessed Andrew, crucified in the said city, and would invade the said city and carry away the relics of the apostle with him, on a certain night an angel of the Lord appeared to the blessed Regulus, saying: “Regulus, servant of God, apply to yourself suitable brethren, holy men and fearers of God, and from the chest of the bones and relics of the apostle Andrew, which is committed to you to keep, take from there three fingers of his right hand, a bone of the arm hanging from the shoulder, one tooth, and the kneecap; and you shall keep them cautiously in the place which I shall show you, until I come again.” Lesson 3.

Now when the emperor had at once translated the aforementioned parts of the relics to Constantinople, the angel returned again to the same blessed Regulus, announcing to him a salutary command: “The relics of the blessed apostle Andrew which you have received committed to you, take; and assume a company of chosen men with you, and delay not to bear them even to the western parts of the world; and at length coming there, in the honour, praise and perpetual glory of the said most holy apostle you shall lay the foundations of a church. For that place is elect of God to be built, and shall be the seat, head and foundation of that region.” Lesson 4.

Therefore the glorious confessor Regulus, with the great legation committed to him from heaven, praised our Lord Jesus Christ, the blessed Andrew, with most devout hymns, and besought to fulfil his legation in the name of Christ; and from there for the space of two years he sailed, tossed by the waves of the sea, doubting much where he should turn his sails; comforted at length by the Lord, he with his companions came safe to land in Scotland on the fourth of the Kalends of October [28 September]; and with the sign of the cross going before them they went down to the ship, and first they entered the woods of the Picts. Lesson 5.

Now the blessed Regulus, by the providence of God’s servant not unmindful of his supreme legation, sought by divine showing the place by the angel to build a basilica to the blessed Andrew the apostle, and sent the men whom he had brought with him everywhere through the kingdom of Scotland of the Picts and the Britons to preach the word of God. And when this was done, innumerable multitudes of the people, converted to the faith of Christ, were baptized in his name; and meanwhile by various miracles they were upheld by the intervening merits of the blessed Regulus himself, and obtained eternal rewards at his preaching. Lesson 6.

But when the blessed Regulus could not at his own expense build the said basilica, it was seen that then King Hungus, who ruled the Picts, saw a very great brightness of angels above the relics of the apostle; and coming to the said Regulus and his companions with his army, he was baptized with his nobles and ministers; and the land, cultivated and copious, he granted in honour of the blessed Andrew and the said Regulus, for this day in perpetuity to the place; for this cause the city is called “the city of cities” and “the mother of churches”, and the apostolic seat in all the province of the Scots. Now after these things the blessed Regulus in continual labours, vigils and various lamentations, exercising himself strenuously day and night with the sanctity of his flock, in obedience and fasting, until the end of his life most happily gave himself up. Now by the multitude of years, even to decrepit…