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Originally Posted by Hugh
Point of information.
St George's Day is the 2nd of May in the Church calendar this year, as the normal date clashes with Easter.
The reason is that the Saturday between Christ's crucifixion and resurrection is a day of mourning and so cannot also be a feast day for a saint.
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Seeing as very few people will actually be feasting for the saint, and even fewer will be praying at him and hoping for his intervention in some crisis or other, I think that point of information is slightly moot.
Still, how typically English to have a patron saint's day that's subject to delay or cancellation.
Now ... who thinks I should wrap myself in the flag and then go for a celebratory pint somewhere down Sauchiehall Street?
