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Egads! Like Brian Cohen?
Apr 23, 2018,03:06 AM
Good God, Man!
What?!?
Our patron saint was a Turkish-Syrian hybrid polytheist who lived in foreign lands and was "claimed" as a messiah by three religions like Brian Cohen (Monty Python's Life of Brian)?
Next you'll be saying our Royal dynasties spoke French and German and didn't even live in England.
Impossible!
What next? No Robin Hood nor Santa Claus?
MTF
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Today it is 'St Georges Day'
By: nomadgiles : April 23rd, 2018-01:39
Patron saint of England, Malta, Aragon & Catalonia (parts of Spain) and Romania; Father born in Turkey, Mother was Syrian; Was a Roman Soldier; Died in Palestine (having never set foot in Britain); He's a Christian Saint, also a Muslim & Jewish pr...
LOL! [nt]
By: amanico : April 23rd, 2018-01:50
So a typically modern "mixture" ....
By: Marcus Hanke : April 23rd, 2018-02:03
... my wife never pardoned him on the dragon issue - she will be delighted to read that he had learned his lesson due to the bad PR ! Marcus
:-) [nt]
By: nomadgiles : April 23rd, 2018-05:13
Egads! Like Brian Cohen?
By: MTF : April 23rd, 2018-03:06
Good God, Man! What?!? Our patron saint was a Turkish-Syrian hybrid polytheist who lived in foreign lands and was "claimed" as a messiah by three religions like Brian Cohen (Monty Python's Life of Brian)? Next you'll be saying our Royal dynasties spoke Fr...
Much prefer a taming!
By: nomadgiles : April 23rd, 2018-09:33
Lovely picture, Mike - but where is the fair maiden? Not often depicted in medieval Orthodox art I guess. Cheers, Giles
Well, there was a whole village to be rescued
By: cazalea : April 23rd, 2018-09:58
Which was beyond my ability to paint in a week's workshop. Here's an older icon done by a master (in the Tretyakov Gallery), with the village and the fair maiden ...
I was hoping for......
By: nomadgiles : April 23rd, 2018-10:12
........a bit more 'fair' ;-) and preferably without this problem: ...