What nationality was Saint George?
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If Mary Magdalene was the victim of misunderstanding, George is the object of a vast amount of imagination. There is every reason to believe that he was a real martyr who suffered at Lydda in Palestine, probably before the time of Constantine. The Church adheres to his memory, but not to the legends surrounding his life.\n\nThat he was willing to pay the supreme price to follow Christ is what the Church believes. And it is enough.The story of George's slaying the dragon, rescuing the king's daughter and converting Libya is a twelfth-century Italian fable. George was a favorite patron saint of crusaders, as well as of Eastern soldiers in earlier times. He is a patron saint of England, Portugal, Germany, Aragon, Genoa and Venice.
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Grenada, St. Patrick, & the Irish\nBy Margaret Hughes.\n\nSpanning slavery, war, education and the Catholic Church, Grenada has an intimate association with Ireland. One outstanding sign of this is the parish of St. Patricks which carries the name of Ireland's patron saint.\n\nPatrick was captured and brought to Ireland as a slave from Europe about the year 400AD. He worked as a shepherd for some years, escaped and made it back home across the sea. Later, when he became a Bishop, he asked Rome to send him to Ireland to bring Christianity. He arrived in 432 AD. There was a Celtic festival at the beginning of Spring each year when the High King was the first to light the dawn fire on the hill of Tara, seat of the Kings. This established the power of the King. Patrick was a remarkable stratagist and, in order to get an audience with the King, decided he would light the first fire on the hill facing Tara. The ruse worked and the King sent for this audacious man. Patrick brought the Good News of Christianity and the King and his Kingdom were converted without bloodshed\n\nPatrick's writings exist to this day and his most famous hymn is called the Breastplate of St. Patrick. The Seat of the Catholic Church is still at Armagh where Patrick established it. He is portrayed in bishops outfit carrying a staff and a Shamrock. The shamrock, which is the national emblem, is a native three leaf plant which Patrick is alleged to have picked and displayed to demonstrate the Trinity---three in one.!\n\nIn the 1600's, the dispossessed of Ireland presented a problem.Their lands had been taken away by the English. They were rebellious. One solution was found in carting them off to the sugar plantations of the Caribbean. So began the process of forced emigration. In the Treaty of Galway document, 1660, it is amazing to learn that one quarter of the city was sent to Barbados."Barbadoing" was a dreaded word. It meant than any hapless person found wandering about would be picked up and sent to the WestIndies. These captives were found to be useless at cutting cane under tropic sun due to the tenderness of their skin---and so became known as "Red Legs"\n\nIn 1779 the next significant group of Irish arrived in Grenada. It was the military contingent called the Irish Brigade under Count Arthur Dillon and his brother Edward. The Irish Brigade known as "The Wild Geese" were the leaders and their followers who left Ireland after the Plantation of 1601 to form armies in Europe to fight the English. These fearless soldiers arrived in Grenada with D'Estaing as part of the French Army. After a brillant manoevre by the invaders, the English surrendered without a fight and the town of St. Georges was handed to the Irish troops for looting. It is said that the Irish behaved in an exemplary fashion due to their own personal experience at home. It is interesting to note that families of D'Estaing and Dillon are well and alive today---direct descendants became Prime Ministers of France and Ireland respectively in the 1970s\n\nThe number of Irish wandering the earth increased dramatically in the 19th Century due to the Great Famine---the last famine in Europe---when 4 million Irish died or emigrated across the English speaking world. The numbers of these to arrive in Grenada were legion: O'Neal, O'Halloran, O'Brien, O'Reilly, O'Sullivan, Murphy, McCann, McGuire, McSweeney,McCarthy, McCabe, Quinn and of course, Grenada's own Galway Donovan, mentor of national hero, Teddy Marryshow\n\nIn 1827, the first Irish priest arrived in Grenada, a Fr. O'Callaghan. He was followed by Fr. Anthony O Hannan, who caused a rift in the Catholic Church in St.Georges and set up his own church for six years at the building in Lucas Street, still known today as La Chapelle.\n\nThe last formal group to arrive were the Irish educators. Kiltegan Fathers, Presentation Brothers and Sisters of Cluny who have done enormo
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do u mean who? george washington
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Ukranian: Martinovich. \nI found it here:\nhttp://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~alan/family/S-Martyn.html
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Gorgeous George is a legend!
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Births\n\n    * 1556 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)\n    * 1583 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)\n    * 1601 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658)\n    * 1628 - François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695)\n    * 1632 - Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist (d. 1694)\n    * 1635 - Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop of Toledo (d. 1709)\n    * 1735 - John Carroll, first American Catholic archbishop (d. 1815)\n    * 1763 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States (d. 1834)\n    * 1786 - Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (d. 1844)\n    * 1792 - Lowell Mason American composer (d. 1872)\n    * 1805 - John Bigler, Governor of California (d. 1871)\n    * 1805 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)\n    * 1817 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman (d. 1893)\n    * 1821 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (d. 1904)\n    * 1821 - W.H.L. Wallace, American Union general {d. 1862)\n    * 1823 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913)\n    * 1824 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (d. 1861)\n    * 1824 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)\n    * 1836 - Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch artist (d. 1912)\n    * 1867 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1961)\n    * 1870 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain (d. 1930)\n    * 1871 - James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1940)\n    * 1881 - Henrik Shipstead, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (d. 1960)\n    * 1883 - Patrick J. Hurley, U.S. Secretary of War (d. 1963)\n    * 1885 - John Curtin, fourteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1945)\n    * 1885 - A. J. Muste, Dutch-born civil rights activist and pacifist (d. 1967)\n    * 1888 - Matthew Moore, Irish actor (d. 1960)\n    * 1891 - Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)\n    * 1891 - Bronislava Nijinska, Russian choreographer (d. 1972)\n    * 1897 - Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977)\n    * 1902 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (1883)\n    * 1903 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960)\n    * 1904 - Karl Brandt, Nazi war ciminal (d. 1948)\n    * 1905 - Franjo Cardinal Seper, Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1981)\n    * 1908 - William Hartnell, British actor (d. 1975)\n    * 1909 - Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)\n    * 1909 - Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995)\n    * 1910 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian ballerina (d. 1988)\n    * 1912 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)\n    * 1923 - Larry Storch, American actor\n    * 1923 - Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985)\n    * 1923 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-born computer scientist\n    * 1924 - Ron Moody, English actor\n    * 1926 - Evelyn Lear, American soprano\n    * 1926 - Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer\n    * 1926 - Soupy Sales, American comedian\n    * 1931 - Bill Graham, German music promoter (d. 1991)\n    * 1933 - Charles Osgood, American journalist and commentator\n    * 1934 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)\n    * 1934 - Roy Kinnear, English actor (1988)\n    * 1934 - Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004)\n    * 1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)\n    * 1937 - Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer\n    * 1937 - John Hume, Irish politician\n    * 1938 - Bob Eubanks, American game show host\n    * 1941 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (d. 1989)\n    * 1941 - Boris Vallejo, Peruvian illustrator\n    * 1942 - Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author\n    * 1942 - Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan\n    * 1942 - Yvette Mimieux, American actress\n    * 1944 - Terry Brooks American writer\n    * 1946 - Robby Krieger, American musician (The Doors)\n    * 1947 - David Bowie, English musician\n    * 1947 - Samuel Schmid, Swi
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He was born in Bethlehem. Luke 2:11.
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The Roman Catholic Religion.  It is the true religion instituted by our Lord, Jesus Christ, Himself.\nPope Benedict XVI has a direct lineage from St. Peter whom Jesus Christ, in the beginning annointed as "the Rock." of His Church.  The similarity of which is George Bush now, from George Washington, our first  US President.  There is a historical linkage.
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23rd April is St George's Day in England.
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Saint Jacob (aka St. James). Iago is a Latin form of Jacob. It makes more sense if you think of the original Hebrew form, Yaakov, which sounds more like Iago. James is another Anglicized version of Yaakov, but Jacob is closer.
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george, his english valet
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Yes, actually, we know a fair amount.  He was a fisherman like his brother and lived in Capharnaum.  He was originally a disciple of John the Baptist, who led him to Jesus.  After the Resurrection, we think he went to Scythia, Epirus, Theodoret, and Achaia to preach the word of Christ.  He went to Byzantium, where he appointed St. Stachys as its first bishop.  At Patrae in Achaia, he was crucified by being bound to the cross (not nailed) per order of the Roman Governor Aegeaa.  It's thought that he was crucified on the decussate (X-shaped) cross, but that's not known for sure.  His death took place on November 30, 60 A.D., and so Nov. 30 is still his feast day today.  His relics were moved from Patrae to Constantinople and placed in the church of the Apostles sometime around 357 A.D.  Later, they were taken to Italy and deposited in the cathedral of Amalfi, where most of them still remain.  Today, he's the the patron of Russia and Scotland.
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Is your first name George? Did you go to school, or do you need the large type to make you feel educated? Get a life.
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Sephardic Jew (Moroccan Descent)\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sephardic_People\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuelle_Chriqui
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st . peter. jesus appointed him
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St Patrick is known as the patron saint of Ireland. True, he was not a born Irish.But he has become an integral part of the Irish heritage, mostly through his service across Ireland of the 5th century.\n\nPatrick was born in the later half of the 4th century AD.\n\nThere are differing views about the exact year and place of his birth.\n\nAccording to one school of opinion, he was born about 390 A.D.,\nwhile the other school says it is about 373 AD. Again, his birth place is said to be in either Scotland or Roman England.\n\nHis real name was probably Maewyn Succat.Though Patricius was his Romanicized name, he was later came to be familiar as Patrick.\n\nPatrick was the son of Calpurnius, a Roman-British army officer.\nHe was growing up as naturally as other kids in Britain. However, one day a band of pirates landed in south Wales and kidnapped this boy along with many others. Then they sold him into slavery in Ireland. There was there for 6 years, mostly imprisoned.\n\nThis was when changes came to him. He dreamed of having seen God.\n\nLegend says, he was then dictated by God to escape with a getaway ship.\n\nFinally, he did escape and went to Britain. And then to France.\nThere he joined a monastery and studied under St. Germain,\nthe bishop of Auxerre. He spent around 12 years in training.\nAnd when he became a bishop he dreamed that the Irish were calling him back to Ireland to tell them about God.\n\nThe Confessio, Patrick's spiritual autobiography, is the most important document regarding this. It tells of a dream after his return to Britain, in which one Victoricus delivered him a letter headed "The Voice of the Irish."\n\nSo he set out for Ireland with the Pope's blessings. There he converted the Gaelic Irish, who were then mostly Pagans, to Christianity. He was confident in the Lord, he journeyed far and wide, baptizing and confirming with untiring zeal. And, in a diplomatic fashion he brought gifts to a kinglet here and a lawgiver there,but accepted none from any.\n\nIndeed, Patrick was quite successful at winning converts.\nThrough active preaching, he made important converts even\namong the royal families. And this fact upset the Celtic Druids.\nPatrick was arrested several times,but escaped each time.\nFor 20 years he had traveled throughout Ireland, establishing monasteries across the country. He also set up schools and churches which would aid him in his conversion.\nHe developed a native clergy, fostered the growth of monasticism, established dioceses, and held church councils.\n\nPatrick's doctrine is considered orthodox and has been interpreted as anti-Pelagian. Although he is not particularly noted as a man of learning, a few of his writings remain extant:\nhis Confession, a reply to his detractors, and several letters.\nThe Lorica ("Breastplate"), a famous hymn attributed to Patrick,\nmay date to a later period.\n\nBy the end of the 7th century Patrick had become a legendary figure, and the legends have continued to grow since then.\nThere are many legends associated with St Patrick.\nIt is said that he used the three-leafed shamrock to explain the concept of the Trinity; which refers to the combination of\nFather, Son, and the Holy Spirit. Hence its strong association with his day and name.\n\nLegend also has that, Saint Patrick had put the curse of God on venomous snakes in Ireland. And he drove all the snakes into the sea where they drowned.\n\nTrue, these are mostly legends. But, after some 1500 years,\nthese legends have been inseparably combined with the facts.\nAnd together they have helped us know much about the Saint and the spirit behind celebration of the day.\n\nPatrick's mission in Ireland lasted for over 20 years.\nHe died on March 17, AD 461.\nThat day has been commemorated as St. Patrick's Day ever since.\nThe day's spirit is to celebrate the universal baptization of Ireland.\nThough originally a Catholic holy day, St. Patrick's Day has evolved
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George Washington was born on February 22, 1732. So as of December 16th, 2005, he would be more than 273 years old.