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JAWS

23-Apr-07, 06:44

Get the flags out everybody, today is the best day in the year folks.

It's Saint George's Day!

trinkie

23-Apr-07, 07:23

I do hope you have a good one - how are you going to celebrate?

Is there special food / cake for this Big Day ?
Do tell us all,
Trinkie

Lavenderblue2

23-Apr-07, 07:32

Dragon Burgers perhaps...

Happy St Georges Day to all.

LB

Rheghead

23-Apr-07, 08:56

Get the flags out everybody, today is the best day in the year folks.

It's Saint George's Day!

Very well!:Razz

http://members.aol.com/sabbytut/Flag-St-George.gif

Victoria

23-Apr-07, 11:10

Happy St Georges Day eveyone!!!!

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Sporran

23-Apr-07, 17:41

Get the flags out everybody, today is the best day in the year folks.

It's Saint George's Day!

Er....Don't you mean the second best day in the year to Saint Andrew's Day, JAWS? ( Just teasing, lol! :Razz )

Happy St Geordach's Day! ;) I mean HAPPY SAINT GEORGE'S DAY!!!

percy toboggan

23-Apr-07, 17:51

I spent ages in the garage looking for me little red and white flag - to no avail. So, I donned my 2006 vintage England world cup type polo shirt and wore it for work. Only prob it is were so flippin' chilly I had to wear my poxy second rate corporate sweatshirt over the top of it 'cause I wor feelin' nesh. Ahh well, the thought was there. Today in my travels I saw about a dozen cars flying the flag. That's a dozen more than you would have seen a few years ago. Nationalism is not on the march down here, but someone or something has given it a dig and it's thinking about waking up.

Billy Boy

23-Apr-07, 19:56

Angela

23-Apr-07, 20:15

can someone settle an argument between myself and the wife, I thought st george was English but my wife believes he was from Palestine or Turkey and is not English. So now i am very confussed

Don't know where he came from, but I'm pretty sure he wasn't English.

I think the dragon was a fiction as well!

He's the patron saint of lots of other countries too....:confused ....have you tried a spot of googling????? ;)

Jeemag_USA

23-Apr-07, 21:39

Happy St George's Day

I was doing some googling and came up with this other trivia,

Did you know today is also William Shakespeare's birth day. And its the same day Britain produced its first decimal coins in 1968.

Among other people also the birth day of Shirly Temple and Roy Orbison :Razz

PS this is what it says on Wickerpedia

In Christian hagiography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagiography) Saint George - The Saint who killed the Dragon (ca. 275-281–April 23 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_23), 303 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/303)) was a soldier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier) of the Roman Empire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire), from Anatolia, now modern day Turkey, who was venerated as an Islamic and Christian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian) martyr (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyr). Saint George is the most venerated saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church) and Oriental Orthodox Churches (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Orthodoxy). Immortalised in the tale of George and the Dragon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George_and_the_Dragon), he is the patron saint (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patron_saint) of Canada (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada), Catalonia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia), England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England), Ethiopia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia), Georgia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_%28country%29), Greece (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece), Montenegro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro), Portugal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal), Serbia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia), the cities of Istanbul (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul), Ljubljana (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljana) and Moscow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow), as well as a wide range of professions, organisations and disease sufferers.

Victoria

23-Apr-07, 21:41

Jeemag_USA

23-Apr-07, 21:42

Ahh but did you know that William Shakesspeare was born on the 23rd April and died on the 23rd April.

Its also my brothers birthday:Razz

I didn't know that, thats spooky, I wonder if he booked ahead [lol]

Victoria

23-Apr-07, 21:45

Bit of a rubbish birthday don't you think :lol:

JAWS

24-Apr-07, 01:51

Sporran, you got me in one. The "best day" bit was very tongue-in-cheek.

St. George was definitely not English and is Patron Saint for a great number of Countries including Russia. As with many Patron Saints he probably never went anywhere near the Countries who adopted him as such.

He was indeed from what is now Turkey when it was part of the Eastern Roman Empire when Constantinople was it's Capital. He was Christian, joined the Roman Army, fell foul of a purge of Christians by one of the Roman Emperors and was Martyred as a result.

No castles, no beautiful blondes, brunets or even red-heads and definitely no fire breathing Dragons. The fact that he was adopted as Patron Saint by England around the thirteenth or fourteenth century probably accounts for those details. People have a tendency to portray such things according to how it best suits their purpose at the time of the telling.

As far as I recall he was Martyred in what is now Libya at a time when England did not even exist and Britain was still ruled by the heads of various tribal groups.

Elenna

24-Apr-07, 09:30

Ahh but did you know that William Shakesspeare was born on the 23rd April and died on the 23rd April.

Miguel de Cervantes, the Spanish novelest, poet, and playwright who wrote Don Quixote, also died the same day as Shakespeare...23 April 1616.

It seems like it was a rough St George's Day for famous writers that year. :lol: