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Information: St. George

Feast Day: April 23

Born: between ca. AD 275 and 281, Nicomedia, Bithynia, modern-day northwestern Turkey

Died: April 23, 303, Lydda, Palestine

Major Shrine: Church of Saint George, Lod

Patron of: agricultural workers; Amersfoort, Netherlands; Aragon; archers; armourers; Beirut, Lebanon; Bulgaria; butchers; Cappadocia; Catalonia; cavalry; chivalry; Constantinople; Corinthians; Crusaders; England; equestrians; Ethiopia; farmers; Ferrara; field workers; Genoa; Georgia; Gozo; Greece; Haldern, Germany; Heide; herpes; horsemen; horses; husbandmen; knights; lepers and leprosy; Lithuania; Lod; Malta; Modica, Sicily; Moscow; Order of the Garter; Palestine; Palestinian Christians; Piran; plague; Portugal; Portuguese Army; Portuguese Navy; Ptuj, Slovenia; Reggio Calabria; riders; saddle makers; Scouts; sheep; shepherds; skin diseases; soldiers; syphilis; Teutonic Knights

26 posted on 04/23/2014 7:05:48 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Information: St. Adalbert of Prague

Feast Day: April 23

Born: 939, Libice nad Cidlinou, Bohemia

Died: 997, Truso (Elbląg) or Kaliningrad Oblast

Patron of: Bohemia; Poland; Prussia

27 posted on 04/23/2014 7:07:18 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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