23 April 2012


St George is, inter alia, the Patron Saint of:

Portugal, Georgia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Agricultural workers, Moscow, Catalonia, Aragon,Majorca, Palestinian Christians, Beirut, Butchers, Freemasons, Armourers, Field workers, Horsemen, Knights, Shepherds, Saddlers, Sheep, Horses, Syphilitics, Herpes sufferers, Soldiers and Skin diseases

Oh and England too of course.....!The poor chap must be knackered!

5 comments:

Sean Jeating said...

Ha ha ha ... each year again I am looking forward to this very homage.

jams o donnell said...

I couldn't disappoint you Sean!

CherryPie said...

Ode to St George :-)

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Quite a job that. And why are soldiers grouped with skin diseases and not with Freemasons, to use one example?

jams o donnell said...

Indeed Cherie!

I wonder if that it is because they were (once at least) more likely to contract the former than join the latter the lower ranks anyway!