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Today it is 'St Georges Day'
Apr 23, 2018,01:39 AM
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 prophet;
And apparently he didn't kill a dragon ;-)
Have a good week all!
G.
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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: ...