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22nd April 2016

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by Nigel Baker

Ambassador to the Holy See (2011-2016)

Celebrating St George

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There are many oddities in English history. One is that our patron saint is St George. It is an ecumenical oddity. His feast day, 23 April, is both a Solemnity in the calendar of the Roman Catholic Church in England, and a ‘Feast’ in the Church of England calendar (and he is a major saint […]

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