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Happy St George's day
As a good Scotsman and atheist, enjoy your Saint's day!
Think the English should rise up and reclaim the day.
Happy Anatolian Soldier Day!
The son of a Turkish soldier and a Palestinian member of a subversive religious cult who served in an Italian army and who killed a member of an endangered Middle Eastern wildlife species ... he wouldn't be allowed in the country these days. :)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 23 April 2016, 09:31:06 AM
Happy Anatolian Soldier Day!
The son of a Turkish soldier and a Palestinian member of a subversive religious cult who served in an Italian army and who killed a member of an endangered Middle Eastern wildlife species ... he wouldn't be allowed in the country these days. :)
He's the only one we've got so Happy St. George's Day to him and all the other devotees.
Well, apart from:
Æthelberht of Kent
Aldhelm
Amantius of Como
Saint Arthur of Glastonbury
Ambrose Barlow
Thomas Becket
Chad of Mercia
Margaret Clitherow
Morwenna
Cuthbert
Douai Martyrs
Dunstan
Edward the Confessor
Eleutherius of Rocca d'Arce
Thomas Garnet
Edmund Gennings
Isabella Gilmore
James Hannington
John Houghton (martyr)
Laurence Humphreys
Julian of Norwich
Robert Lawrence (martyr)
Cuthbert Mayne
Méen
Thomas More
Henry Morse
Saint Ninian
John Payne (martyr)
George Selwyn (bishop of Lichfield)
Saint Solus
Robert Southwell (Jesuit)
John Southworth (martyr)
Simon Stock
John Stone (martyr)
John Wall (priest)
Augustine Webster
Swithun Wells
St. Werstan
Eustace White
Wulfhilda of Barking
And don't forget St Perrin who surfed to shore in Cornwall and is the patron sent of brewers!
Plus about six more pages of pre medieval saints!
I think we should have a Bank holiday for each and every one :)
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 23 April 2016, 10:57:24 AM
I think we should have a Bank holiday for each and every one :)
Bone idle wretch.
IanS :)
Where to turn when your ancestry includes Welsh, Scots, Anglo-Norman, Dutch and Turk?
Mine are -as far as I know -German Saxon (hence the surname which actually means Saxon or Englishman) and then East Saxon (the Essex tie-in as Essex means East Saxon), right on through to me. There might be a tentative connection to the Welsh Marches but where and how I don't know although the medieval period has been mentioned.
When I was an Anglo-Saxon re-enactor the Vikings used to toast each of their gods. We responded by toasting our saints. We got more beer than they did.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 23 April 2016, 11:25:44 AM
Bone idle wretch.
IanS :)
Oh, you've met Orcs then? ;D
Don't forget St Hilda, very important in northern parts
Cheers
Ian
Or indeed her faithful partner St.Stan.
Quote from: Leman on 25 April 2016, 08:25:46 AM
Or indeed her faithful partner St.Stan.
and their boon companion St Edward of Yeats
Cheers
Ian
Aar ay lad!