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I don't list all the Feast Days here because we'd be simply overrun with them, but I do like to post the ocassional one that has personal significance in some way. So, today, I'd like you all to say 'hello' to St. George. He is one of Jigger's absolute favorite saints, and the fact that we attend St. George's parish is just frosting.
As an aside, I apologize for my lack of attention to my blog lately; I know I owe many of you comments and one of you a thank-you, and I will address these issues as soon as I can. I'm in a state of planning for next school year, you see, and I'm barely getting household things done as well, so feel secure in that my neglect is widespread and not limited to you, my dear friends in cyber-space, lol!
ST. GEORGE
If Mary Magdalene was the victim of misunderstanding, George is the object of a vast amount of imagination. There is every reason to believe that he was a real martyr who suffered at Lydda in Palestine, probably before the time of Constantine. The Church adheres to his memory, but not to the legends surrounding his life.
That he was willing to pay the supreme price to follow Christ is what the Church believes. And it is enough.
The story of George's slaying the dragon, rescuing the king's daughter and converting Libya is a twelfth-century Italian fable. George was a favorite patron saint of crusaders, as well as of Eastern soldiers in earlier times. He is a patron saint of England, Portugal, Germany, Aragon, Genoa and Venice.
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