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Prepare a way for the Lord
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Happy St George’s Day
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Cycleops
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- Accra, Ghana
Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
They give nutters a bad name.
Tail End Charlie
Well, write it down boy ......
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- In green and pleasant hills.
Well, bully for you.
Time Waster
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Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
Good enough to mention again!
St Edmund is our real patron Saint you know!
Yep. Big fan of Noel.
Time Waster
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Enjoying the irony that ‘the English’ are complaining that their rightful Anglo-Saxon patron saint has been usurped
(Given that the Angles and Saxons usurped the British to such an extent that the British language got confined to the margins and the country became known as Angleland, the land of the Angles).
I don't follow your point. Angles became Anglo saxons who became English and the English used to have an Anglo saxon patron Saint. Where is the irony with that? It would be strange to have a Briton as an English patron Saint.
If you're arguing because of our various migrations we shouldn't celebrate a Saint from the founding peoples, the angles and the saxons it's strange. No British nation in modern times is ethically pure anyway.
I just point out that we have a better Saint in the Ango Saxon King Edmund than a soldier from what is now modern day turkey.
Anyway it's all moot. Only Wales has a true national patron Saint who came from the country. All the others weren't from their nation they're saints for. All just a projection of how the state wanted to be seen back when they first got celebrated as a patron Saint. Perhaps we all need new ones for our modern nations and how we want to be seen.
I was 5 years old at school when I got told by a teacher there were no dragons. She was trying to stop a 6 year old crying her head off in fear after the teacher read a story to us with a dragon in. I went straight home and put my nature book into my bag to show her the bit on komodo dragons the next day. She said it's not a dragon I said it is because it's called a komodo dragon. Oh the years of corporal punishment weren't great for open debate!!
Time Waster
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Not if you're from Lancaster and Morecambe!
Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
steverob
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- Buckinghamshire
Now if you wanted a real English saint rather than one the Normans forced upon us, I'd go for Saint Edward - aka Edward the Confessor. Obviously that has nothing at all to do with the fact that his Saints day happens to be the same as my birthday and therefore I'd be actively campaigning to make it a bank holiday, no of course not!
Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
A vote for Saint Drago is a vote for a proud, patriotic and united Engurlund!
classic33
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Very few saints are living at the time they are made a saint.
Time Waster
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And famous round here for blobbygate.
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
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- Kirton, Devon.
St Edmund, St Edward? Do they have a flag?
Personally I'd go for St Boniface....
Personally I'd go for St Boniface....
Time Waster
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Your avatar needs to visit Drago in a martyr style then.
You up for it @Drago? Popular choices are crosses, you can pick your orientation on it if you like!
Seriously hope he's not up for martyrdom. The only martyrs are modern world likes are the self declared martyrs to something trivial or insignificant.
