Should St Georges Day be a holiday?

[Kent Seagull]

I've just recieved this in an e-mail. What do you lot think, should we get a day off for our National Saint?

Fancy another day off work?? than vote for this, click on the link
below.
There is a chance the public can make St Georges Day a public
holiday Click on the link below to vote, the site needs at least
50,000 votes for The government to take it seriously and give
us another holiday, and I know you are up for that!
Pass the address on to whoever you can

http://www.stgeorgesday.com/voting.asp

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

Done, and yes it should be

 

[Simon Morgan]

what day of the week is st george's day on this year?

 

[dougdeep]

It would be at about the same time as most of the others. I'd rather have one between August and Christmas.

 

[Crazy Cornish Gal]

August to christmas is a long hard slog with no break
What i can't understand is that we celebrate st. patricks day more than our own saints day!

 

[Crazy Cornish Gal]

what day of the week is st george's day on this year?

It's a saturday

 

[Simon Morgan]

whats the point then? arent many people not working on a saturday. from a personal point of view, that doesnt really have any effect on me

 

[Crazy Cornish Gal]

It wouldn't always be a saturday, whatever day the 23rd Apirl falls on. Maybe monday off? bank holiday!

 

[Robot Chicken]

Damn right it should be a national holiday. We get less bank holidays than most other countries anyway.

 

[Drumstick]

yeah it should be, but no wierd stuff happening on that day just the day off.

 

[Waterhall Wizard]

It wouldn't always be a saturday, whatever day the 23rd Apirl falls on. Maybe monday off? bank holiday!

Too right my 'andsome. When it falls on a Saturday or a Sunday we can continue to celebrate on the Monday.

I'm all for the greatest emmit of them all.

LONG LIVE ST GEORGE AND ALL WHO SAIL IN HIM!

 

[Stevie Boy]

damn right it should be, why do people celebrate st paddys day and not st george's day.

 

[Crazy Cornish Gal]

I'm all for the greatest emmit of them all.

emmit

 

[Spicy]

I have always thought that more fuss should be made of St George's Day and we should celebrate it. I know that Scout Groups have a church service on the Sunday nearest to the day, but most of us let it slip by without thinking about it. Anyhow if it fell on a Saturday or Sunday we would get an extra day off as we do for Christmas and New Year now when those days fall on a weekend.

 

[blueandwhitearmy]

Yeah why not, another excuse for a piss-up!

 

[Yorkie]

It would be at about the same time as most of the others. I'd rather have one between August and Christmas.

That's why I reckon Trafalgar Day would be better (21st October)
In fact, this year is the 200th anniversary of defeating the French and Spanish.
Hurray for Nelson.

We already have Easter and the May holidays at this time of the year.

 

[dougdeep]

That's why I reckon Trafalgar Day would be better (21st October)
In fact, this year is the 200th anniversary of defeating the French and Spanish.
Hurray for Nelson.

We already have Easter and the May holidays at this time of the year.

Well said Yorkster.

 

[simonsimon]

" St George is the patron saint of England and among the most famous of Christian figures. But of the man himself, nothing is certainly known. Our earliest source, Eusebius of Caesarea, writing c. 322, tells of a soldier of noble birth who was put to death under Diocletian at Nicomedia on 23 April, 303, but makes no mention of his name, his country or his place of burial. According to the apocryphal Acts of St George current in various versions in the Eastern Church from the fifth century, George held the rank of tribune in the Roman army and was beheaded by Diocletian for protesting against the Emperor's persecution of Christians. George rapidly became venerated throughout Christendom as an example of bravery in defence of the poor and the defenceless and of the Christian faith."
HE WAS NEVER AN ENGLISHMAN.
Yet again you are all victims of Hype and Propoganda.

 

[Yorkie]

" St George is the patron saint of England and among the most famous of Christian figures. But of the man himself, nothing is certainly known. Our earliest source, Eusebius of Caesarea, writing c. 322, tells of a soldier of noble birth who was put to death under Diocletian at Nicomedia on 23 April, 303, but makes no mention of his name, his country or his place of burial. According to the apocryphal Acts of St George current in various versions in the Eastern Church from the fifth century, George held the rank of tribune in the Roman army and was beheaded by Diocletian for protesting against the Emperor's persecution of Christians. George rapidly became venerated throughout Christendom as an example of bravery in defence of the poor and the defenceless and of the Christian faith."
HE WAS NEVER AN ENGLISHMAN.
Yet again you are all victims of Hype and Propoganda.

So what? You don't have to have an Englishman to adopt him as a patron saint.
Travellors adopt St Christopher and he wasnt English either

The emblem of England is a rose and that isn't English.

 

[simonsimon]

" St George is still venerated in a large number of places, by followers of particular occupations and sufferers from certain diseases. George is the patron saint of Aragon, Catalonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Germany and Greece; and of Moscow, Istanbul, Genoa and Venice (second to St Mark). He is patron of soldiers, cavalry and chivalry; of farmers and field workers, Boy Scouts and butchers; of horses, riders and saddlers; and of sufferers from leprosy, plague and syphilis."
SO you want to nominate a Bank Holiday to a Saint who is also the Patron Saint of SYPHILIS and GERMANY!
A fine role model!