Happy St George's Day

Everyone at FC magazine wishes all our readers and supporters a very Happy St George's Day.

It is a scandal that the English have no national holiday, no nationally accepted cultural event[s] etc. as do the Irish and Welsh for their Saints.

Where have the days gone of widely celebrated feasts? Where is the national pride that came so naturally to the English people of many centuries?

Are these relegated because they get in the way of businessmens' profits or because they reinforce the fact that England was Christian and celebrated her Saints for centuries?

It seems that everything can be celebrated in multi-cult England [Diwali, Holocaust Day...] but St George is relegated to a cameo role.

The other lie we get this time of year is that St George was a Turk.

St George was, it's widely accepted, a Roman soldier and officer who died for the Christian Faith. He was in Asia Minor [the Eastern Roman Empire, later Byzantium] which before the conquest of Byzantium by the Ottomans was peopled by a European/Greek people.

So the next time some socialist or faggot tries to downplay St George with this oft repeated lie, stand firm.

St George was embraced by the English knights as they fought the Crusades to free Jerusalem [the same Jerusalem that's occupied today] because he was a soldier who made the ultimate sacrifice for the same Faith they were going to fight [and die] for.

Some links:

http://www.britannia.com/history/stgeorge.html
"A lesser holiday in honour of St George, to be kept on 23 April, was declared by the Synod of Oxford in 1222; and St George had become acknowledged as Patron Saint of England by the end of the fourteenth century. In 1415, the year of Agincourt, Archbishop Chichele raised St George's Day to a great feast and ordered it to be observed like Christmas Day. In 1778 the holiday reverted to a simple day of devotion for English Catholics."
-- seems like 'Red Ken' Livingstone could learn a lesson or two!

http://www.stgeorgesday.com/home
Campaign to make St George's Day a National Holiday!