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Thread #79456   Message #1467309
Posted By: Les from Hull
21-Apr-05 - 04:36 PM
Thread Name: St Georges Day What are you doing?
Subject: RE: St Georges Day What are you doing?
I make a small mistake. St George is the patron saint of all these things:

Aragon; agricultural workers; archers; armourers; Beirut, Lebanon; Boy Scouts; butchers; Canada; Cappadocia; Catalonia; cavalry; chivalry; Constantinople; Crusaders; England (by Pope Benedict XIV); 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.

Not bad going for someone who probably didn't exist!

I'd still go for Sebastian for Patron Saint of Archers, though. George must be Deputy Assistant Patron Saint of Archers at best. George seems to have to much affinity with skin conditions and sexually transmitted diseases to be considered completely wholesome. Actually that might be a good way to celebrate his day!