Soldato
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Obligatory George Carlin quote....
RACIST ENGLISH *******
Well, that's what everyone says when someone flies the ST Georges Cross, and I am ashamed at people
Really is a shame, and I truly hope you fly the flag HIGH as it's the ENGLISH flag, not the UK flag, so have EVERY right.. ANd for the lefty ******s, NO IT'S NOT RACIST
RACIST ENGLISH *******
Well, that's what everyone says when someone flies the ST Georges Cross, and I am ashamed at people
Really is a shame, and I truly hope you fly the flag HIGH as it's the ENGLISH flag, not the UK flag, so have EVERY right.. ANd for the lefty ******s, NO IT'S NOT RACIST
Are you racist against Israelis
Well, that's what everyone says when someone flies the ST Georges Cross, and I am ashamed at people
Really is a shame, and I truly hope you fly the flag HIGH as it's the ENGLISH flag
And Britain First are having a field day on Facebook not realising he's a foreigner and never came here.
I though he was Syrian
I always thought he was from Palestine!
He was from Syria Palaestina, a Roman province in what is today Israel, he was born in Lod 9 miles from the Israeli capital.
The confusion come from the fact that Syria Palaestina encompassed modern day Turkey, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Israel.
To be clear, he was almost certainly Greek.
Like I said above, he was born in Lod in the Roman province of Syria Palaestina, a Roman province which encompassed many modern countries but his birthplace was in modern day Israel (<10 miles for Tel Aviv).
At no time during his life or immediately before/after was Lod Greek.
In 200 AD, emperor Septimius Severus elevated the town to the status of a city, calling it Colonia Lucia Septimia Severa Diospolis.[23] The name Diospolis ("City of Zeus") may have been bestowed earlier, possibly by Hadrian.[24] At that point, most of its inhabitants were Christian. The earliest known bishop is Aëtius, a friend of Arius.[15] In December 415, the Council of Diospolis was held here to try Pelagius; he was acquitted. In the sixth century the city was renamed Georgiopolis[25] after St. George, a soldier in the guard of the emperor Diocletian, who was born there between 256 and 285 AD.[26] The Church of St. George is named for him.[11]
St George was Greek. His parents were Greek. Lod was essentially an ethnically Greek city.