Happy St.George’s Day to all patriotic English men and women. The left/liberal cynics in the media often like to laughingly crow that St.George wasn’t actually English. Funny how the fact that Ireland’s St.Patrick wasn’t Irish doesn’t ever get mentioned by these same people. It doesn’t matter where a country’s saint lived or was born. The fact is that St.George was martyred for the Christian faith, and that has allowed him to be adopted as a patron saint by many countries, including our own.
Happy St. George’s Day to all native English people. I agree with Geoff Crompton’s opinion. The birthplace of saints is irrelevant – they are merely handy symbols, as much as the “Micheline Man”, Ronald MacDonald and the “Compare the Markets” Meerkats are symbols . St. Nicholas (who eventually became morphed with other legends into “Father Christmas”) was Turkish and is recorded as attending the Council of Nicaea, where he got into an argument and punched another delegate in the face knocking him out (possibly shouting “Yo Ho Ho – hang this on your mantlepiece! How’s this for a sock?” as he did so”? We are not told). Happy Ostara everyone. (“The best weapon against oppression is laughter” – St. Vitus.)
The liberal left and cultural ‘enrichers’ who now dominate the media have been allowed to get away with the fiction that St.George was a Turk. “Ho! Ho!”, they say, “what idiots English nationalists must be in making him their national saint.”
They ignore ( or probably are unaware) the fact that the Turks did not arrive from Central Asia until the tenth century A.D. St.George was born in Lydda in Roman Palestine (now part of Syria) circa 275-281 AD and was a soldier in the Roman Army, as was his father. The people in that area and also the whole of modern day Turkey were ancient Greek, completely indistinguishable from most modern day Europeans.
The famous painting of him by Carlo Crivelli, 1430, shows him with fair hair and light eyes. This is not, of course, a necessary requirement to be a good Englishman or a good European – of which we are part.
Happy St Georges Day to all Englishmen and women. Utterly agree John Bean, the media and left like to squash English identity which we must not allow to happen by enforcing he was multicultural etc. Strange he sees George as fair haired blue eyes even as an italian. Fair skinned people are known to settle in asia minor one group were germanic speakers i believe
In the 23rd April I attended both Waitrose and Asda supermarkets. From the sublime to the ridiculous one might say, however, not one St George emblem, not an English flag in sight. In both stores I requested to see the manager and made an official complaint the our Saints day was not being celebrated in England by the store. Please tale the time to write to the CEO’s of the major supermarkets to register a complaint. On St Patricks day no doubt we shall see shamrocks and staff with green wigs. Next year we should demand to see the red and white that is our England.
(Party Member) Well done Roger. Every year I do the same thing with the card shops. This year in Dorset I found one ST.George card out of eight shops ! The assistants mostly agreed it was a shame the cards were not stocked. The managers did not care and did not like the matter being brought to their attention.
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Happy St. George,s Day to all true Patriots.
Happy St.George’s Day to all patriotic English men and women. The left/liberal cynics in the media often like to laughingly crow that St.George wasn’t actually English. Funny how the fact that Ireland’s St.Patrick wasn’t Irish doesn’t ever get mentioned by these same people. It doesn’t matter where a country’s saint lived or was born. The fact is that St.George was martyred for the Christian faith, and that has allowed him to be adopted as a patron saint by many countries, including our own.
Yes, St Patrick was supposedly actually born in Britain and could have been born in Ravenglass in Cumbria or in Scotland or Wales.
Happy St. George’s Day to all native English people. I agree with Geoff Crompton’s opinion. The birthplace of saints is irrelevant – they are merely handy symbols, as much as the “Micheline Man”, Ronald MacDonald and the “Compare the Markets” Meerkats are symbols . St. Nicholas (who eventually became morphed with other legends into “Father Christmas”) was Turkish and is recorded as attending the Council of Nicaea, where he got into an argument and punched another delegate in the face knocking him out (possibly shouting “Yo Ho Ho – hang this on your mantlepiece! How’s this for a sock?” as he did so”? We are not told). Happy Ostara everyone. (“The best weapon against oppression is laughter” – St. Vitus.)
The liberal left and cultural ‘enrichers’ who now dominate the media have been allowed to get away with the fiction that St.George was a Turk. “Ho! Ho!”, they say, “what idiots English nationalists must be in making him their national saint.”
They ignore ( or probably are unaware) the fact that the Turks did not arrive from Central Asia until the tenth century A.D. St.George was born in Lydda in Roman Palestine (now part of Syria) circa 275-281 AD and was a soldier in the Roman Army, as was his father. The people in that area and also the whole of modern day Turkey were ancient Greek, completely indistinguishable from most modern day Europeans.
The famous painting of him by Carlo Crivelli, 1430, shows him with fair hair and light eyes. This is not, of course, a necessary requirement to be a good Englishman or a good European – of which we are part.
Happy St Georges Day to all Englishmen and women. Utterly agree John Bean, the media and left like to squash English identity which we must not allow to happen by enforcing he was multicultural etc. Strange he sees George as fair haired blue eyes even as an italian. Fair skinned people are known to settle in asia minor one group were germanic speakers i believe
In the 23rd April I attended both Waitrose and Asda supermarkets. From the sublime to the ridiculous one might say, however, not one St George emblem, not an English flag in sight. In both stores I requested to see the manager and made an official complaint the our Saints day was not being celebrated in England by the store. Please tale the time to write to the CEO’s of the major supermarkets to register a complaint. On St Patricks day no doubt we shall see shamrocks and staff with green wigs. Next year we should demand to see the red and white that is our England.
(Party Member) Well done Roger. Every year I do the same thing with the card shops. This year in Dorset I found one ST.George card out of eight shops ! The assistants mostly agreed it was a shame the cards were not stocked. The managers did not care and did not like the matter being brought to their attention.