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Thread #93584   Message #1803537
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
07-Aug-06 - 12:08 PM
Thread Name: st georges day a public holiday
Subject: RE: st georges day a public holiday
Somebody above wanted to rename the August bank holiday the Feast of St. Diana and celebrate it by driving round drunk. There is no St Diana, she only achieved beatitude a good 700 years after her death in the 13th century. It was for this reason that my baptism was disallowed by the local priest and my parents had to shop around for a more liberal one who would bestow me with such a 'heathen' name. The delay on her elevation is attributed to dubious behaviour of the nuns at their Dominican convent and I don't think anyone ever described tham as 'virgin martyrs'. Diana's feastday is 9 June.