On April 23 England celebrate their
patron saint who is St. George, but it calls my attention because a
mythical history about this character and
because he is not from England, in fact, he don’t even visit it in his life,
but he influences a lot on this country.
St. George was a roman soldier who
fought on the crusaders, in there he made a reputation which go through
countries and years. He was imprisonment by the emperor Diocletian who lead the
roman’s persecution of Christians. Georges keeps their faith even when he was
tortured, and this was an inspiration for the people.
When crusaders arrive to England
from foreign places they spread the stories about St. George, so he became too
popular in the XIV and XV centuries that the England’s soldiers slowly start to
wearing he’s symbols like the red cross in a white background and the red rose
which are the national England symbols. Also the England flag is the red cross
of St. Georges.
But what really surprised me was
that the most known history about St. George is this: There was a dragon living
in the town of Silene on Libya and every day the people gave two sheep him for
feeding, one day wasn’t any sheep for him so they decide to sacrifice a child
of the town by a lottery and the princes was chosen, but when the dragon was
ready to eat her St. George appears and hurt him, then he told to the people
that he’ll kill the dragon if they turn into Christians so they accepted and he
kill the dragon.
St. George’s Day is not so popular
nowadays, but it still a commemoration day and some people wants to give more
importance to this day.
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