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Thread #45444   Message #671476
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
18-Mar-02 - 04:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: What do you think about celebrating...
Subject: RE: BS: What do you think about celebrating...
More holidays the better.

Of course St George isn't just for England. A very popular patron saint - here's the list:

Aragon, agricultural workers, archers, armourers, Boy Scouts, butchers, Canada, Catalonia, cavalry, chivalry, England, equestrians, farmers, Ferrara Italy, field hands, field workers, Genoa Italy, Georgia, Germany, Greece, herpes, horsemen, horses, husbandmen, Istanbul, knights, lepers, leprosy, Lithuania Moscow, Order of the Garter, Palestine, Palestinian Christians, plague, Portugal, riders, saddle makers, saddlers, skin diseases, skin rashes, soldiers, syphilis, Teutonic Knights, Venice.

Syphilis, leprosy, herpes, plague, skin diseases...I suppose thet all count as a sort of dragon. (That list comes from this informative site.)