Posted on 04/22/2005 7:48:15 PM PDT by Stoat
Good news for St. George devotees, if you hadn't heard. In 2000, his feast was raised again to a solemnity in England, with a special Mass and liturgy.
And anyone who thinks the dragon-slaying story is fanciful has never seen the crocodiles that grow in his part of the world (North Africa). The biggest in modern memory was a touch over 27 feet long, of which approximately 7 feet is head.
Good news for St. George devotees, if you hadn't heard. In 2000, his feast was raised again to a solemnity in England, with a special Mass and liturgy.
And anyone who thinks the dragon-slaying story is fanciful has never seen the crocodiles that grow in his part of the world (North Africa). The biggest in modern memory was a touch over 27 feet long, of which approximately 7 feet is head.
This is horsesh*t.
How would the Turks know? Is anyone still living who ACTUALLy witnessed the Crusades? Britian bends over once again!
Yeah! They may not like red-on-white on the military vessels of other countries; but they're happy as hell to see it on the flags of organizations that step-in to feed them and save their @$$e$ when Mother Nature shakes them to pieces.
They've gone starkers..
One can always live and learn. Thank you for the post. Shakespeare, of course was born and indeed died on the 23rd of April. His depiction of Henry V in Act 3,scene 1, stirs the blood( well some of us).
"Follow your spirit, and upon this charge, cry God for Harry and St George ".
This flag business is political correctness gone mad indeed. Now this political correctness is still a devastating weapon. The public, suborned by corrupt Marxist Socialists, know full well, it is an excercise in absolute power. They also know it is often "got up" rubbish. The problem is that too many are frightened to speak out. Maybe the Turks do not even bloomin' well care- who knows?
I still may yet live long enough to see the tide turn. Ah, there is one country in Western Civilization, where the tide is slowly and powerfully starting to turn against this programmed madness. I look across at it every day, just across the St Mary's River from Ontario, Canada.
Take the case of George Galloway. Do the Muslims of Great Britain have a better friend than old George? Yet a group of Muslims in Britain has issued a fatwa calling for his execution. What more proof does one need that you are not dealing with rational people?
"Are these the muslim Turks that butchered 1.5 million Armenian and Greek Christians about 90 years ago?? The Euros are fools!!!!!!!!!"
Yes, these are the same Turks. Yes, the Euro's are fools. Europe has a long and interesting history. It's sad to see it circling down the drain into irrelevance.
no it now officially the Common Era
Its BCE/CE ( Before Common Era and CE Common Era.
all pubs in history and social sciences must use this format or you'll get a nasty little note to correct it
It's so no one gets offended....hehe
I'm rather loathe to accept half a story from The Sun as proof on this, especially as it has no direct attribution in it and I can't find anything anywhere else on this.
Can't quite work out why it would upset the Turks anyway. As St George was a Turk, I'd think they'd be quite pleased that he was being worshiped so over here.
The only thing that I can think of that the St George Cross is an official flag in the Royal Navy flown by an Admiral's flagship, which may affect which other ships are allowed to fly it, I don't know that for sure though.
The Seljuk Turks entered Asia Minor after the Byzantine defeat at Manzikert.
The Crusades helped the Byzantines and Armenians retake control of the area which then, as you note, would be later conquered by the Ottoman Turks.
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