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A related item that may be of interest:
Why does it take a German like me (and a mayor with Turkish roots) to get you English to celebrate St George's Day Mail Online
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St George and the Dragon: Use of the cross has not been considered particularly PC due to its association with the Crusades
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FR threads from 2008:
(U.K.)Cancelled on police advice St George's Day parade through the Bradford race-riot zone
Beijing Olympics Flags showing Cross of St George, Saltire or Welsh dragon banned
FR thread from 2005
Great Britain Navy bans St.George flags (Flag said to upset Turks; reminder of Crusades)
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On the significance of St. George:"Saint George is the patron saint of England. He's popularly identified with England and English ideals of honour, bravery and gallantry..."
BBC - Religion & Ethics - Saint George Introduction
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St George is still venerated in a large number of places, by followers of particular occupations and sufferers from certain diseases. George is the patron saint of Aragon, Catalonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Germany and Greece; and of Moscow, Istanbul, Genoa and Venice (second to St Mark). He is patron of soldiers, cavalry and chivalry; of farmers and field workers, Boy Scouts and butchers; of horses, riders and saddlers; and of sufferers from leprosy, plague and syphilis. He is particularly the patron saint of archers, which gives special point to these famous lines from Shakespeare's Henry V, Act 3, Scene 1, l. 31: 'I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit; and, upon this charge
Cry God for Harry, England and St George!'. Indirectly, the spirit of George the soldier saint played a part in modern English history when Sir Laurence Olivier's film of Henry V was issued in 1944 as an encouragement to our armies fighting for the liberation of France. |
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St. George - England's Patron Saint
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA St. George
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Here, Here!!! It's about time we laugh in the face of those who claim to be offended! PC has ruined the US, Britain and the world.
Someone please tell me the last time a Muslim country stopped doing something because it offended us.
don't worry over here they leave St George alone...they think him strictly of discrimination against dragons fame...they get their panties in a knot over St Andrew instead:
original version as designed by Pierre
Rather reminds me of the conflabs over the Stars and Bars in the southern US states.
Good for the Mayor. [Wonder how many death threats he gets from members of TROP?]
If I remember correctly Russia were not happy about Georgia's St George flag either.
