ST. GEORGE'S DAG
TO TH» ;|ft)WO« °» PMSB. Sir,—lt is recorded in the Wellington newspapers'that the anniversary of England's patron saint is to be duly celebrated 'in* that tdWn, and I understand;it is. to. be a permanent event. The Irishmen, Scotsmen, and the Welshmen in this English city give -due recognition to their patron saints days, and I could never understand the English community letting St. George’s day pass in the mftnner it has done. There are many of us in Canterbury who have seen the burial place of St. George at Ludd (or Lydda, as it is called in the Bible), in Palestine, and on the huge monument erected thereon it states that he was England's patron saint, and-Was martyred there. History tells us also that St. George was the .patron saint of. the Portuguese. The’English in Christchurch have certainly been lax In not organising anj celebration in honour of St. George, but, however, a firm of jam manufacturers in the Edinburgh of Ahe soutli has been doing its best to remind us rt his greatnes S ._You^ ( eto., BELLS March 14, 1936.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21733, 16 March 1936, Page 18
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