Summary
Dear Editor, We all know the story of St George & the Dragon (as my mother will tell you, I was once the dragon in a primary school production of it); most of us probably assume the story's a myth, but amongst the English at large, how many know anything of the real St George?
The patron saint of England is surely English isn't he? Isn't George about as English a name as you can get? But in fact he was born in what is now Turkey, and died in Palestine in the 3rd century AD.See the full content of this document
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Letter: What Is Left That Is Really English?
Not only did he never come anywhere near England during his life, but England as we know it didn't even exist.
At least St David really was from Wales,...See the full content of this document
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