asperity Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 This calls for a celebration. Off to the pub then :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 hummmmm! Wonder how many flags of england are flying today? Wonder how many people will complain that any flags that are flying are offensive to the migrant population? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Adopting a Roman soldier who lived in Turkey, sounds about right! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Adopting a Roman soldier who lived in Turkey, sounds about right! Don't suppose it's much different than worshipping a citizen of Bethlehem in Palestine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Adopting a Roman soldier who lived in Turkey, sounds about right! Damned foreigners, eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Don't suppose it's much different than worshipping a citizen of Bethlehem in Palestine. And some fell on stoney ground and was blown away by the wind. Observer worships only one god - himself! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted April 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Adopting a Roman soldier who lived in Turkey, sounds about right! St Andrew was born at Bethsaida on the Sea of Galilee. St Patrick was a Roman-Briton. St David was actually Welsh. Apparently nationality doesn't count for much when it comes to adoption as a patron saint :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Would have been nice if he had lived here for a bit though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 probably have been deported as an illegal or arrested for attacking an endangered species Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RingoDave Posted April 28, 2012 Report Share Posted April 28, 2012 I wonder if a truly English saint would have been possible at any time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted April 28, 2012 Report Share Posted April 28, 2012 St Colomba & St Aiden were irish. St Oswald was an english king. St Chad was from Northumbria, as was his elder brother St Cedd. St Hilda was Abbess of Whitby. St Etheldreda Queen of Norfolk. St Cuthbert was from Northumbria. Not forgetting St Bede - the venerable Bede. Need anymore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RingoDave Posted April 28, 2012 Report Share Posted April 28, 2012 There you go...why not have an English (or Irish, you seem to be saying) saint? By the way, St Patrick was believed to be either Welsh or West coast English, but from a family who were part of what was then the civil service. He went to Rome well after being taken to Ireland as a young man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted April 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2012 St Patrick was from what was called a Roman Briton family. It was the way of the Romans to allow anyone from the lands they conquered to become a Roman citizen, so you didn't ever actually have to go to Rome to be a Roman. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RingoDave Posted April 29, 2012 Report Share Posted April 29, 2012 I'm not disagreeing, asperity; merely pointing out that Patrick would have made an equally good English patron saint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted April 29, 2012 Report Share Posted April 29, 2012 I'm not disagreeing, asperity; merely pointing out that Patrick would have made an equally good English patron saint. Nah, they didn't have Guinness over here in those days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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