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Id like a bank holiday but dont really care about St.Georges day if im honest, just want a day off work. I consider myself to be British more than English and feel the Daily Mail anti-immigrant brigade use the lack of St.Georges day celebrations as a stick to beat everyone by
Happy St. Georges day though olgit dont want to piss on your parade or anything
OK, the Italian bit might be a bit far-fetched. It's just that he was made a slave by Irish pirates at the age of 16. They got him from Scotland which is where the Italian ice cream makers set up shop.
It stands to reason that if he wasn't Italian......he was a Jock.
flash gunner wrote:Id like a bank holiday but dont really care about St.Georges day if im honest, just want a day off work. I consider myself to be British more than English and feel the Daily Mail anti-immigrant brigade use the lack of St.Georges day celebrations as a stick to beat everyone by
Happy St. Georges day though olgit dont want to piss on your parade or anything
flash gunner wrote:Id like a bank holiday but dont really care about St.Georges day if im honest, just want a day off work. I consider myself to be British more than English and feel the Daily Mail anti-immigrant brigade use the lack of St.Georges day celebrations as a stick to beat everyone by
Happy St. Georges day though olgit dont want to piss on your parade or anything
Saint Patrick (Latin: Patricius; Primitive Irish: *Qatrikias;[2][3] Old Irish: Cothraige or Coithrige;[4] Middle Irish: Pátraic; Irish: Pádraig; Old Welsh: Patric; Middle Welsh: Padric; Welsh: Padrig; Old English: Patric; ca. 387 – 17 March, 493[5] or ca. 460[6]) was a Romano-Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most generally recognized patron saint of Ireland or the Apostle of Ireland, although Brigid of Kildare and Colmcille are also formally patron saints.
Two authentic letters from him survive, from which come the only generally-accepted details of his life.[7] When he was about 16, he was captured from Wales by Irish raiders and taken as a slave to Ireland, where he lived for six years before escaping and returning to his family. After entering the Roman Catholic Church, he returned to Ireland as an ordained bishop in the north and west of the island, but little is known about the places where he worked. By the seventh century, he had come to be revered as the patron saint of Ireland.