#stgeorgesday — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #stgeorgesday, aggregated by home.social.
-
Spotted this stained glass window in St Mark's Church, Millfield in Sunderland on a Heritage Open Day visit.
Portraying England's patron St George attempting to fight off a fearsome-looking dragon.
Although St George never actually set foot in England, his reputation for virtue and holiness had spread far and wide across Europe.
St George's feast day, the 23rd April, began to be celebrated in England from the 9th century onwards and following the 'Battle of Agincourt' in 1415, St George's Day became one of the most important feast days in the English calendar.
#stgeorgesday #england #sunderland #stainedglass #patronsaint #photography -
Why does England have such a shit patron saint when there are so many actual English saints to choose from.
So, petition to change to patron saint of England to an actual English person. We have plenty to choose from:
- St Æthelstan - a former bishop of Hereford
- St Margaret Clitherow - "the pearl of York", patron saint of businesswomen.
- St Isabella Gilmore - oversaw the revival of the Deaconess Order, where the women were to be “a curiously effective combination of nurse, social worker and amateur policeman”.
- St James Hannington - Was kinda, sorta anti-slavery (if they were Christians).
- St Laurence Humphreys - while ill and delirious called Queen Elizabeth a harlot and a heretic and was executed for it.
#England #StGeorgesDay #StGeorge #MagicalSkyFairy #PatronSaint -
Saint George did not become the patron saint of England until the Reformation in 1552. Before that, Edward the Confessor held the position.
10 things you might not know about St George:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2014/04/april-23rd-saint-georges-day.html?spref=tw
#StGeorgesDay #StGeorge #Saints #Today #SaintGeorge #England #PatronSaint #FeastDay