The Cross of St. George (II)
And now, thank fuck, we can take them all down because a fat Liverpudlian's shoe fell off.
As an example of how deep the love of the English for their (Cappadocian) patron saint is, I offer this:
In 1451, the English garrison at Bayonne, surrendered to the French, and removed the red cross from all of their tabards and shoes and things because a white cross (which was then all the rage on French tabards and shoes and things) had been seen in the sky. They said God was obviously trying to turn them French.
The fact that it never occurred to them that most clouds are white says all we need to know about the late-mediaeval/early-modern period. It was rubbish.
As an example of how deep the love of the English for their (Cappadocian) patron saint is, I offer this:
In 1451, the English garrison at Bayonne, surrendered to the French, and removed the red cross from all of their tabards and shoes and things because a white cross (which was then all the rage on French tabards and shoes and things) had been seen in the sky. They said God was obviously trying to turn them French.
The fact that it never occurred to them that most clouds are white says all we need to know about the late-mediaeval/early-modern period. It was rubbish.
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