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The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew; Book of Hours, about 1410. Andrew is said to have been bound, not nailed, to a Latin cross of the kind on which Jesus was believed to have been crucified. However a tradition developed that Andrew had been crucified on a cross of the form called crux decussata (X-shaped cross, or "saltire"), now commonly known as a "Saint Andrew's Cross" -supposedly at his own request, as he deemed himself unworthy to be crucified on the same type of cross as Jesus had been.