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In lieu of the traditional mass celebrations, street parties and mass coverage it’ll have to be a more muted affair but enjoy nevertheless.

 

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View stuckinbristol's Profile stuckinbristol Flag In the woodwork. 23 Apr 21 8.41am Send a Private Message to stuckinbristol Add stuckinbristol as a friend

Absolutely.
Make the most of it. St George will soon be banned by the do-gooders!

 

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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 23 Apr 21 9.04am Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Happy St George's Day everyone.

 


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View Fatherken's Profile Fatherken Flag 23 Apr 21 9.14am Send a Private Message to Fatherken Add Fatherken as a friend

you can't allow people going around killing Dragon's ban St George

 

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View DanH's Profile DanH Flag SW2 23 Apr 21 9.32am Send a Private Message to DanH Add DanH as a friend

Originally posted by stuckinbristol

Absolutely.
Make the most of it. St George will soon be banned by the do-gooders!

Who had second post in the sweepstake for someone getting upset at the made up future banning of St George’s Day? Must be a new HOL record. These days, you get thrown in jail just for saying you’re English.

Happy St George’s Day everyone.

 

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View Palace Old Geezer's Profile Palace Old Geezer Flag Midhurst 23 Apr 21 9.58am Send a Private Message to Palace Old Geezer Add Palace Old Geezer as a friend

Proud to be English. Happy days and the sun's shining.

But, Georgie boy, con you pop over when you get a minute. Bloody dragon's been eating my daffodils.

 

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View stuckinbristol's Profile stuckinbristol Flag In the woodwork. 23 Apr 21 10.21am Send a Private Message to stuckinbristol Add stuckinbristol as a friend

Originally posted by DanH

Who had second post in the sweepstake for someone getting upset at the made up future banning of St George’s Day? Must be a new HOL record. These days, you get thrown in jail just for saying you’re English.

Happy St George’s Day everyone.

The only thing I am upset about is the erosion of the English culture, in favour of total acceptance of other peoples cultures, regardless of their detrimental effect.

 

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View Apollofuzz's Profile Apollofuzz Flag On the edge of reason 23 Apr 21 10.45am Send a Private Message to Apollofuzz Add Apollofuzz as a friend

Happy St George’s Day but.....
I wonder how many people know that St George is not the original patron saint of England. That honour falls to the St Edmund (or Edmund the Martyr), Anglo-Saxon King of East Anglia in the 9th century.
According to legend, he was captured in battle by the Vikings who tried to get him to renounce his Christian faith. When he refused he was bound to a tree, shot through with arrows and beheaded. His decapitated head is said to have been reunited with its body with the help of a talking wolf who protected the head and alerted Edmund’s followers.
Talking wolves aside, we know that his remains were moved to what is today Bury St. Edmunds (which is how it got its name) where a religious community was founded to care for his shrine which then became a place of national pilgrimage.
Such was the influence of St Edmund that on St Edmund’s Day (20 November) 1214 rebel English barons held a secret meeting there before confronting King John with the Charter of Liberties, the forerunner to Magna Carta which he signed a year later. This event is reflected in the motto of Bury St Edmunds: ‘Shrine of a King, Cradle of the Law’.
St Edmund’s influence began to fade when, during the Third Crusade in 1199, King Richard I visited the tomb of St. George in Lydda on the eve of battle. The next day he won a great victory. Following this triumph, Richard adopted St. George as his personal patron and protector of the army.
In 1348, Edward III founded a new order of chivalry, the Knights of the Garter and made St George the patron of the Order and also declared him Patron Saint of England.
Attempts were made in 2006 and 2013 to have St Edmund reinstated as patron saint of England (on the basis that St George, patron saint of 16 other countries, had never even visited England) but were rejected by the government.
Having been moved to France, today St Edmund's remains are kept in the chapel in Arundel Castle.

I like the idea of a taking wolf. A Dragon is just to far fetched

And Ironically St Edmund is also the Patron Saint of Pandemics

Edited by Apollofuzz (23 Apr 2021 10.46am)

 


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Tom-the-eagle Flag Croydon 23 Apr 21 10.50am

Originally posted by stuckinbristol

Absolutely.
Make the most of it. St George will soon be banned by the do-gooders!

Its OK, I believe he was of Greek heritage so we may be able to keep him.

 


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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 23 Apr 21 10.56am Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Thanks Apollo I did not know any of that.

I just checked and his feast day is 20 Nov so if we did switch Paton Saints it would rebalance our crowded spring calendar.

Of course not going to happen as any government will not want to touch the subject as too controversial.

Maybe we could have some alternate patron saints:

St Tony Blair
St Nelson Mandela
St Donald of Trump
Abbott Diane


 


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View mezzer's Profile mezzer Flag Main Stand, Block F, Row 20 seat 1... 23 Apr 21 11.51am Send a Private Message to mezzer Add mezzer as a friend

Originally posted by Apollofuzz

Happy St George’s Day but.....
I wonder how many people know that St George is not the original patron saint of England. That honour falls to the St Edmund (or Edmund the Martyr), Anglo-Saxon King of East Anglia in the 9th century.
According to legend, he was captured in battle by the Vikings who tried to get him to renounce his Christian faith. When he refused he was bound to a tree, shot through with arrows and beheaded. His decapitated head is said to have been reunited with its body with the help of a talking wolf who protected the head and alerted Edmund’s followers.
Talking wolves aside, we know that his remains were moved to what is today Bury St. Edmunds (which is how it got its name) where a religious community was founded to care for his shrine which then became a place of national pilgrimage.
Such was the influence of St Edmund that on St Edmund’s Day (20 November) 1214 rebel English barons held a secret meeting there before confronting King John with the Charter of Liberties, the forerunner to Magna Carta which he signed a year later. This event is reflected in the motto of Bury St Edmunds: ‘Shrine of a King, Cradle of the Law’.
St Edmund’s influence began to fade when, during the Third Crusade in 1199, King Richard I visited the tomb of St. George in Lydda on the eve of battle. The next day he won a great victory. Following this triumph, Richard adopted St. George as his personal patron and protector of the army.
In 1348, Edward III founded a new order of chivalry, the Knights of the Garter and made St George the patron of the Order and also declared him Patron Saint of England.
Attempts were made in 2006 and 2013 to have St Edmund reinstated as patron saint of England (on the basis that St George, patron saint of 16 other countries, had never even visited England) but were rejected by the government.
Having been moved to France, today St Edmund's remains are kept in the chapel in Arundel Castle.

I like the idea of a taking wolf. A Dragon is just to far fetched

And Ironically St Edmund is also the Patron Saint of Pandemics

Edited by Apollofuzz (23 Apr 2021 10.46am)

What better day to bury St Edmund

 


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View steeleye20's Profile steeleye20 Flag Croydon 23 Apr 21 11.58am Send a Private Message to steeleye20 Add steeleye20 as a friend

Excuse me, can you tell me the way to Bury St.Edmund?

Sure, dig a big hole and shove him in it......

 

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