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http://full-of-grace-and-truth.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/st-george-great-martyr-trophy-bearer.html The above link is to a very lovely and interesting Orthodox description of St George who's feast we celebrate today. I'm English and happy and proud to seek the intersession of the meek and honourable martyr and warrior for truth. St George is venerated in the Eastern Mediterranean area by Orthodox, Catholic and Muslim. Not a cause of division but a figure of unity and his burial place is a place of pilgrimage by all three communities. As I point out to my Welsh family, the Dragon wasn't the Welsh one! St George is a very popular Saint he is patron of : Georgia, England, Egypt, Bulgaria, Aragon, Catalonia, Romania, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Iraq, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Serbia, Ukraine and Russia, as well as the cities of Genoa, Amersfoort, Beirut, Fakiha, Bteghrine, Cáceres, Ferrara, Freiburg, Kumanovo, Ljubljana, Pomorie, Preston, Qormi, Rio de Jan...