Happy Saint George's day!
He is also the patron saint of Ethiopa, Georgia, Malta, Gozo, the regions of Aragon and Catalonia (Spain) and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. And according to a Portuguese friend of mine:
"The castle here in Lisbon is also named after him. At one time, Spain occupied...
Apologies if this subject has been discussed but I can't find it if it has.....
Having been brought up Catholic we of course attribute Saints to various different reasons for intervention and my favourite-so much so I took the feminine of the name for my Confirmation-is St Anthony, patron saints...
In honour of Grenadine Gray's now regular contributions to FT and because some of them have good stories, I've started a thread about obscure Saints. I'll start with St. Frideswide, patroness of Oxford. My old school was named after her - funny name for a school.
She blinded one of her...
"Miracles" at Saint-Medard France, 1727-1732
I read about this in "The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved" a while back but haven't really found much else about it on the internet. Found this at http://www.nhne.com/windwings/wind4.html...
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