Today is St George's Day. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
Your patron saint wasn't English. Your flag wasn't English either.
Here's why we claimed them both. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐ฌ๐ง
He was from Cappadocia. Modern Turkey.
A Roman soldier. The Praetorian Guard. Diocletian's personal bodyguard.
303 AD. The Emperor orders him to persecute Christians.
He refuses. Walks into the throne room. Tells the Emperor his order is cruel.
They offer him his life back. Gold. Land. His old command.
He refuses again.
23rd of April, 303. They behead him.
1,723 years ago today.
The flag was Genoese. 1099. Their navy was so feared that Barbary pirates turned home at the sight of it.
In 1190, Richard the Lionheart signed a treaty. English ships could fly the cross for protection.
We flew it so long we forgot it wasn't ours.
In 2018, the Mayor of Genoa wrote to the Queen asking for 247 years of back rent.
She didn't reply.
Edward III makes George our patron saint.
Henry V cries his name at Agincourt.
A Roman soldier from Cappadocia became the name Englishmen died for.
We didn't inherit our patron saint. We chose him. And we chose a soldier who refused.
That is your history.
This is who we are. ๐ฌ๐ง
We find what Britain has forgotten. And we tell it properly.
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Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. ๐๐ฌ๐ง
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I told him that I'm sure there are so many people that do. Can we all please like and share this post and show him just how many of do care about our veterans and prove to Ted he's not forgotten. I will show him this post when he comes back for his dinner next week."
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