Saint George or a true “English” saint

Having missed St George’s day, as it was swallowed up by Easter, the general reluctance of the English to mention it and the news media to actively ignore it, I started thinking. This St George fellow is in all probability of middle eastern origin, I have read about Syria, Turkey, Georgia(!) and others, and probably a Roman soldier of some description to boot. As the slayer of a dragon he could be accused of “animal” cruety, but this is more than likely some metaphorical thing that escapes me – could it be fighting Islam?

Perhaps we really need an true English born saint. I have had a bit of a dig about and the few saints I have found that were born in England are few and far between. Perhaps we should ditch St George and adopt one of the following: Etheldreda, Cuthbert, Wulfstan, Alfred the Great, Offa, Bathilde, Burchard of Würzburg or Lioba of Bischofsheim 9both the last two were born in England although they died in what is now Germany).

Then there was Alban – the first English Christian martyr who was beheaded in 305AD, but he was born in Rome.

 

No brag ,Coz St george has that nice pretty flag

"all together for the flag of st george" was a nice little world cup ditty ,that never took off!

 

Slaying Dragons might have been referring to kicking Welsh butt!!

 

All your saints sound like víking names.

 

We'll stick with the devil we know

 

I'll stick with George The Dragon Slayer. Although some of the customs of other countries that also have him as a patron saint could also be adopted - I rather like the Catalan customs on 23rd April

 

How about View attachment 2596 ?

Scottish, I know, but did wonders for the English game

Not convinced about George either - am sure he was only called the dragon slayer because he was a misogynist.

 

Or Saint Simon? View attachment 2598

 

I suppose if you lived on the south coast you could have St Mary!

 

Saint Lloyd - there, done and dusted .

 

Thats it ! done and dusted Saint LLoydy day, although we might have to change the day from april to December

 

Doesn't Devil Doyley do ?

 

nope

 

Does for me - my saints have to be good players

 

You've got your activity award back Norway

 

Better look after it this time

 

It`ll disappear soon enough ,they magically appear and disappear! a bit like a tax rebate

 

Don't quite get how a 30-something man killing a dragon is overshadowed by a 30-something man walking out of a tomb and going to his mate's house, but ho-hum.

 

NNW - it is strange, especially when you consider that both are fictional characters

 

OOOOOOh controversial BB - some night not see it that way.