The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #67025   Message #1117930
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
17-Feb-04 - 03:29 PM
Thread Name: BS: St. George
Subject: RE: BS: St. George
Surely nobody has ever been under the impression that St George came from England?

Interestingly I noticed when they had that recent coup in Georgia (European Georgia that is) that the crowds were waving pretty well the same St George's Cross as is the English national flag, though I gather it's not the national flag in Georgia.

Do they use the St George's Cross at all in the American Georgia?

Incidentally, St George is a remarkably popular patron saint: Aragon, agricultural workers, archers, armourers, Beirut, Lebanon, Boy Scouts, butchers, Canada, Cappadocia, Catalonia, cavalry, chivalry, Constantinople, Crusaders, England, equestrians, farmers, Ferrara Italy, field hands, field workers, Genoa Italy, Georgia, Germany, Gozo, Greece, herpes, horsemen, horses, husbandmen, Istanbul, knights, lepers, leprosy, Lithuania, Malta, Moscow, Order of the Garter, Palestine, Palestinian Christians, plague, Portugal, riders, saddle makers, saddlers, skin diseases, skin rashes, soldiers, syphilis, Teutonic Knights, Venice.