It’s St Georges day 23rd June ! — not highly regarded in England - but he is our national saint. A number of years ago, this caused me to reflect on the hideen nature of Englsihness and English identity (and the interface with faith)
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It’s one of those amusing quirks of history that we have a national patron saint who never visited England, would not have spoken the language of these isles at that time and probably could not even name this little island - which was not to be known as England until another 500 years after his deat…