Your annual reminder that St George, if he existed, was Romano-Greek & from Cappadocia in what is now Turkey so probably not very ‘white’
His flag was borrowed from Genoa & he only became patron saint in the 14th century with the founding of the Order of the Garter so nothing to do with Richard I
His flag was borrowed from Genoa & he only became patron saint in the 14th century with the founding of the Order of the Garter so nothing to do with Richard I
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Lots of saints probably didn’t exist & the stuff about miracles is often stretching the limits of reality even for the average fanatical Catholic from the Middle Ages
Just like to remind the gammons wrapped in his flag while being racist that George was a foreigner
How about St Rita of Cascia
About 869 AD or thereabouts
He & Edward the Confessor were the national saints of England
Edward III chose George of Lydda as part of the creation of the Order of the Garter & changed the flag