Today is, of course, the day of St George, patron saint of England and I have no doubt that this auspicious day will be celebrated with roast beef sandwiches, morris dancing and copious amounts of Bombardier ale throughout the land. As well as being the patron saint of England, St George also serves the same purpose in a number of other countries and regions including Eithiopia, Palestine, Georgia, Lithuania, Portugal, Russia, Aragon and Catalonia.
Whether England should have someone who was probably a Roman soldier in the bodygaurd of the Emperor Constantine as a patron saint is possibly a matter of debate. Perhaps a more local candidate might be St Boniface who converted most of what is now Germany to Christianity and came from Crediton, but of course, he did not have a reputation for slaying dragons.
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How about Bobby Moore.
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