martes, 21 de abril de 2015

Saint George


            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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