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According to legend, the bones of St. Andrew were brought to Fife by a Greek monk, called St Regulus or St Rule, in about 345 AD to prevent the Emperor Constantine removing them from Patras to Constantinople. Taking an armbone of the saint, together with three fingers, a tooth and a knee-cap, he is reported to have carried them for safekeeping to "a region towards the west, the utmost part of the world". By the 10th century possession of the relics had made St. Andrews an important place of pilgrimage, to the extent that it came to be regarded as pre-eminent within the Scottish church, its bishops styling themselves 'Bishops of Scotland'.