St George's Day

sun-star · 04-22-2003, 10:46 AM

There was a St Patrick's Day thread, so I thought there should be one for this as well...

Happy St George's Day to all English people, and all non-English people too (it's on the 23rd April, btw)

Shadowfax · 04-22-2003, 06:57 PM

Pardon me for my ignorance, but who is St George? What did he do?

Coney · 04-22-2003, 07:19 PM

St George is the patron saint of England

You want me to fight a what??? <--- let link provides a lot of info on him.

I have a morbid fear of St G's day..........it comes from when I was about 12 yrs old, in the boy scouts....

Every year we had to do a St George's day parade in a big old church, it was packed with people......I had to carry the flag and while I was carrying the flag through the packed church towards the altar (slow march and everything) I accidently let my concentration slip and the flag pole fell sideways......stright onto a whole row of parishiners

it took ages to get the flag, pole and people untangled (and one poor woman got the metal crest at the tip of the pole right on her head)..........all this time there are about forty other flag bearers, from different scout troops, waiting behind me

I was never allowed to carry the flag again after that little episode

jerseydevil · 04-22-2003, 07:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Shadowfax
Pardon me for my ignorance, but who is St George? What did he do?

Saint George is an English Saint. He's the one always pictured as slaying the dragon. I don't really know much about him. But he's sort of the equivalent of St Patrick for the the English. I know that a lot of him is steeped in legend - but I don't know all the legends or what is true and what isn't.

Happy St Georges Day to everyone though.

jerseydevil · 04-22-2003, 07:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Coney
St George is the patron saint of England

You want me to fight a what??? <--- let link provides a lot of info on him.

We posted at the same time. Thanks for the site - that'll help me decern the legend from the facts of his life.

Coney · 04-22-2003, 07:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by jerseydevil
We posted at the same time. Thanks for the site - that'll help me decern the legend from the facts of his life.

YW

....I think that facts of his life are very few and far between, there is an interesting page on the site that tries to explain some of the symbolism from the legends tho'.

sun-star · 04-23-2004, 05:16 AM

And a year later...

Happy St George's Day

Artanis · 04-23-2004, 05:25 AM

Happy St. George's Day to all English people!

jerseydevil · 04-23-2004, 05:31 AM

Happy St George's Day. They just had about it on CNN - otherwise without them or this thread I would not have known.

So what is everyone doing for St George's Day?

Hemel · 04-23-2004, 06:05 AM

Oh Coney!

Happy St George's Day (I've already said it elsewhere as well

)

St George's Day is great for me - associated with lots of nice things, like Morris celebrations and mummers' plays.

Tomorrow I'm going to a St George's parade and festival

(And I fly my St George's flag all the time

.... got asked by a fellow English person if I was flying it because I was a football supporter ...

)

Falagar · 04-23-2004, 06:14 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Coney
I have a morbid fear of St G's day..........it comes from when I was about 12 yrs old, in the boy scouts....

Every year we had to do a St George's day parade in a big old church, it was packed with people......I had to carry the flag and while I was carrying the flag through the packed church towards the altar (slow march and everything) I accidently let my concentration slip and the flag pole fell sideways......stright onto a whole row of parishiners it took ages to get the flag, pole and people untangled (and one poor woman got the metal crest at the tip of the pole right on her head)..........all this time there are about forty other flag bearers, from different scout troops, waiting behind me

I was never allowed to carry the flag again after that little episode

Heh.

I mean 'aww...'
*is happy he didn't do that while carrying flag on may the 17th*

Happy St. George's Day!

***Fat middle*** · 04-23-2004, 07:33 AM

St. George is also the patron saint of Catalonia, so...

happy St. George's Day to all the English and Catalan people!

[footbal]and may St. George lead the forces of Barcelona against Real Madrid next Sunday[/football]

GrayMouser · 04-23-2004, 09:19 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Fat middle
St. George is also the patron saint of Catalonia, so...

happy St. George's Day to all the English and Catalan people!

[footbal]and may St. George lead the forces of Barcelona against Real Madrid next Sunday[/football]

Amen!

Ruinel · 04-23-2004, 10:24 AM

Happy St. George's Day to all the Catalan and English people.

***Fat middle*** · 04-23-2004, 10:33 AM

Being also today Shakespeare anyversary, I'm quoting one of his most patriotic texts (From Richard II):

Quote:

This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
Fear’d by their breed and famous by their birth,
Renowned for their deeds as far from home,—
For Christian service and true chivalry,—
As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry
Of the world’s ransom, blessed Mary’s Son:
This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land,
Dear for her reputation through the world,
Is now leas’d out,—I die pronouncing it,—
Like to a tenement, or pelting farm:
England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame,
With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds:
That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Ah! would the scandal vanish with my life,
How happy then were my ensuing death.

Janny · 04-23-2004, 03:14 PM

Very good! Aww... I thought I was going to make the first reference to Shakespeare. Nevermind.

Does Catalunya have the white flag with red cross also then?

Coney II · 04-23-2004, 03:19 PM

Wow.....a year gone already

How time fly's

Happy dragon stompin' day

***Rían*** · 04-23-2004, 05:19 PM

Happy St. George's day to everyone that celebrates it!

Hi, Coney!

Hemel · 04-23-2004, 05:49 PM

Just come back from the town, and there're a lot of cars out with flags on, and people celebrating. Mind you, it's also Friday ... so that may have something to do with it

I see google search have a George and Dragon over the google word today

Mercutio · 04-23-2004, 06:10 PM

Oh yeah....(lightbulb goes off)...St. George and the Dragon. When my brother was little he was in a boys choir that sang/acted that legend once. We also have a book about it. Very spiffy.

And I realize he isn't just a legend with a dragon.

04-22-2003, 10:46 AM	#1
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	St George's Day There was a St Patrick's Day thread, so I thought there should be one for this as well... Happy St George's Day to all English people, and all non-English people too (it's on the 23rd April, btw) __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

04-22-2003, 06:57 PM	#2
Shadowfax The Fleet-Footed Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: British Columbia Posts: 913	Pardon me for my ignorance, but who is St George? What did he do? __________________ Jesus saved me "To remain ignorant of things that happened before you were born is to remain a child" (Cicero, 106-43 B.C.) "Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth" (Picasso)

04-22-2003, 07:19 PM	#3
Coney The Buddy Rabbit Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Trapped in the headlights.. Posts: 3,372	St George is the patron saint of England You want me to fight a what??? <--- let link provides a lot of info on him. I have a morbid fear of St G's day..........it comes from when I was about 12 yrs old, in the boy scouts.... Every year we had to do a St George's day parade in a big old church, it was packed with people......I had to carry the flag and while I was carrying the flag through the packed church towards the altar (slow march and everything) I accidently let my concentration slip and the flag pole fell sideways......stright onto a whole row of parishiners it took ages to get the flag, pole and people untangled (and one poor woman got the metal crest at the tip of the pole right on her head)..........all this time there are about forty other flag bearers, from different scout troops, waiting behind me I was never allowed to carry the flag again after that little episode __________________ Blessed are the cracked, they let the light in Beatallica Last edited by Coney : 04-22-2003 at 07:22 PM.

04-23-2004, 05:16 AM	#7
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	And a year later... Happy St George's Day __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

04-23-2004, 05:25 AM	#8
Artanis Greatest Elven woman of Aman Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Having way too much fun with Fëanor's 7 Posts: 4,285	Happy St. George's Day to all English people! __________________ --Life is hard, and then we die.

04-23-2004, 05:31 AM	#9
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04-23-2004, 06:05 AM	#10
Hemel Elven Warrior Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: on the boats Posts: 264	Oh Coney! Happy St George's Day (I've already said it elsewhere as well ) St George's Day is great for me - associated with lots of nice things, like Morris celebrations and mummers' plays. Tomorrow I'm going to a St George's parade and festival (And I fly my St George's flag all the time .... got asked by a fellow English person if I was flying it because I was a football supporter ... )

04-23-2004, 07:33 AM	#12
*Fat middle* Mootis per forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Spain Posts: 61,439	St. George is also the patron saint of Catalonia, so... happy St. George's Day to all the English and Catalan people! [footbal]and may St. George lead the forces of Barcelona against Real Madrid next Sunday[/football] __________________ Do not be hasty. That is my motto. Now we'll have a drink and go to the Entmoot. Last edited by Fat middle : 04-23-2004 at 09:16 AM.

04-23-2004, 10:24 AM	#14
Ruinel Banned Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: I have no idea. Posts: 5,441	Happy St. George's Day to all the Catalan and English people.

04-23-2004, 03:14 PM	#16
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	Very good! Aww... I thought I was going to make the first reference to Shakespeare. Nevermind. Does Catalunya have the white flag with red cross also then? __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton.

04-23-2004, 03:19 PM	#17
Coney II Elven Warrior Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: uk Posts: 134	Wow.....a year gone already How time fly's Happy dragon stompin' day

04-23-2004, 05:19 PM	#18
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	Happy St. George's day to everyone that celebrates it! Hi, Coney! __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

04-23-2004, 05:49 PM	#19
Hemel Elven Warrior Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: on the boats Posts: 264	Just come back from the town, and there're a lot of cars out with flags on, and people celebrating. Mind you, it's also Friday ... so that may have something to do with it I see google search have a George and Dragon over the google word today Last edited by Hemel : 04-23-2004 at 05:53 PM.

04-23-2004, 06:10 PM	#20
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	Oh yeah....(lightbulb goes off)...St. George and the Dragon. When my brother was little he was in a boys choir that sang/acted that legend once. We also have a book about it. Very spiffy. And I realize he isn't just a legend with a dragon. __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries.

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