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EDWARD-On April 22, 1941, at Struan Private Hospital, Sydney,
Australia, Kathleen Pamela,
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This old saint, whose life and death are commemorated every April 23, and who is the hero of a legendury adventure with a dragon (whereby he rescued a captive lady, has had a great and widespread influence on the patriotism, religion, and chivalry of Christian nations. In the Middle Ages prince and peasant, soldier and civilian, priest and layman regarded him as their defender and friend. Though a
THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" | native of Palestine, many looked is used by the "ilongkong Telegraph" lo
indicate news which is strictly copyright on him as an Englishman. They
under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance. bears the Indication "Up" la received to
Hongkong on the date of publication by serve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous
the United Press Associations, who TOI
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ST
To-day,. Englishmen in Hongkong join with their compatriots all over the world in honour- ing the name of their PATRON SAINT. Eng- land, the home of the noble culture - and....... civilisation that has croatod the British. Com- monwealth of Nations, stands to-day for an ideal, which all lovers of freedom are valiantly sooking to guard and protect from the evil forces of parverted ideologies.
not surprising that King Richard re- correctly. Or it may be that Christ- built his church at Lydda, and that lang confounded him with Michael, Edward II. made him the Patron- Who Is stated in Scripture to have lought against the dragon, that “old Saint of England,
serpent, the Devil" (Rev, xli. 7); or These stories of the marvellous perhaps, 19 Milner suggests, the fol- power of St George, which were towers of the cult mixed him up with spread by the Crusaders on their way the Emperor Constantine, who in a back from the Holy Land, contei- bas-relief in the church
at, Lydda buted enormously to his cult in End was represented as holding the ban- land. At the battle of Antioch, according to Peter of Tudebod, the
och, neon or
of the Cross and
Turks rushed out on the Crusader dragon or serpent. Them on a
be dragon in the story from all sides and wounded large race-the
numbers.
Then
suddenly there and
seems to of overy
are all legends of a Our own Immortal
emerged from the mountains 'n vasts of Apollo. Perseus,
army mounted on white horses and John Bunyani in his "Pilgrim's Pro- carrying white standards.
gress," represents Christian fight- were the nuxillaries of Christ, under ing against pollyon and overcoming the generalship of St George, St bim. Theodore, and St Demetrius. A In the same natural way we may similar
army of angels, one hundred
of
thousand strong, appeared when the upcount for St George's rescue
"Princess” Alexandra from the
in-
Crusaders were attacking Jerusalem, dragon. This legend also appears In Led by St George, who wore white numerous engravings and paintings. armour with a red cross upon It, In Raphael's famous pleture, for they scaled the walls successfully and stance, which this artist painted for captured the city (July 15th, 1099.) the Duke of
VIII. of England. Li vesques de Malton a sor destre St George Is mounted on
a white gurde,
horse and pierces the monster with
As the old French vorsion states:- offered Urbino, and which was
to
Et voit me compuigne qui cheval- his lance, while the "Princess" or her
chent serre,
knees implores the help of Heaven.
Et voit bien qu'll estolent plus de General currency was given to this
C mil orme.
story by Jacobus de Voragino (13th
GEORGE
Facts and Legend
By the Rev. J. W. Jack, D.D.
century), the Archbishop of Genoa, in his famous "Golden Legend," one of the first books printed by Caxtony 1936. Such news a formed guilds of St George, re- of Jafta), where he was born, and
In 1483, and the legend naturally During the twalfth century these spread everywhere, for it appealed. joiced with great festivity on his where a church was built over his marvellous events become the subject directly to the chivalry of the feudal
remains. When he suffered marlyr- foast day, and painted him on om is unknown, but it was prob- of numerous ballads and troubadour lords in all countries. Probably, it is nothing but a symbol of George's many tavern signboards. Even ably during the reign of Decius songs, and in this way received many victory over paganian. The young yet he occupies an important (249 A.D.), one of the most severe fresh accretions. It should be re- "Princess" no doubt represents either WAKE UP HONGKONG !
position in the Church calendar, Perators of Christianity. The cir- membered that such appearances of the province of Lydda, which his second only to that held by the death, as Wallls Budge states, "must celestial armies, with white-clad sol- example and protection had delivered the idolatrous King Dadianus, have been of a very unusual char-diers on white horses, were not new the Christian Faith in TUNBRIDGE Wells is a town apostles.
acter, otherwise his name would not or startling to Eastern people, whose general, of which he was such a cour- in southwest Kent. It has a Within the last few years It has have continued to live in legend and ancestors for two thousand years had ageous soldier, Very abundant in believed in the miraculous interven- the world's literature are these singu- population of approximately 36,- come to be recognised by Orientalists fable for so many centuries."
and hagiographers that our western These few facts we have mention- tion of God in battle. Even the stars lar and charming legends of a deadly 000,--a considerable percentage versions of his history and martyr- ed are the only historic ones on which
In their courses are said to have monster and victorious man.
scenery,
of one week recently it raised
cumstances of his torturing and
we can found his life-history, and
hin
from
gone the
of which are middleclass small-dom are based on eastern texts of a they cannot be said to come from fought against Sisera, and the Book Value Of St George town tradesmen,-no industries, much earlier date-Syriac, Coptic, early documents. The oldest martyr of the Maccabees contains many
Arabic, and Ethiopic and that only ologium known (A.D. 412), pre- similar stories. We are reminded of the loglans and scholars who have There have, of course, been many no big commercial concerns, pic-a study of the latter can reveal the served in the British Museum, omits the legends and superstitions which objected to this cult of St George and turesque
chalybeate authentie facts of his history. Many name. The first mention of him occurred during the Great War-how have branded it as idolatrous, Martin
occurs in the famous
tous Decree of Fope the Maid of Orleans had been seen Luther, Tilenus, Melanchthon, Cra- springs, local rates of 8/10d in scholars, by thus examining the Gelasius and his council of seventy at the head of the French troops, and canthorpe, Calvin, and others con-
original sources, have largely suc- two bishops, which was the £, and income tax of ten ceeded in extricating the truth from Rome in 494. This decree forbade angels in the guise of soldiers sidored it obnoxious. Some theolo
ne had been observed fighting side by shillings in the £; in the course the tangle of legendary Delion with the reading of such fabulous historie-side with the British army at Mons. length-of-denying
glans, in-their zoal, have ay Cyriacus,
and
·Existence- Werbert Thurston, John B. Male, George, and is thus a very important Meaning Of The Dragon and the great historian
E. Matzke, document, for it shows even
bon did his character much hario, £510,244 (over HK$7,700,000) Krumbacher, J. B. Aufhauser, W. F. before the end of the fifth century.
It is not easy to account for the sing him apparently with the in a special war effort.
Volbach, Dr G. F. Hill, Miss M. H. the story of George's martyrdom hart story of the Dragon in St George's bore the same name. It would have archbishop of Alexandria, who Bulley, Karl Kunstlė, G. J. Marcus, become mixed with Hongkong is a highly prosper-Sir E. A. Wallls Budge, and others legends and crude fables
Impossible history. In numerous vignettes and been better if these learned critics
paintings he is represented as mount- had taken the trouble rather to
to study ous outpost of the British. Em- have written exhaustively on the subject. The result is that no com-
ed on a white horse and spearing a the oriental versions, and to disen- How Legends Arose pire. It has a population of petent authority now doubts that a
hideous dragon. There seems
in noth- tangle, a calm and reasonable It is on these few historic facts, and being armed with a spear or
ing unusual in his riding on a horse fashion, tha.
true story from the nearly 2,000,000,-a percentage real historical George existed. All
the evidence available goes to
to show drawn mostly from the original lance, of which represent the world's that the legend in its oldest form Oriental versions, that all the extra-nce, for he is known to have been endory absurdities which have overlaid it. After all, the real facts, contains the true history of a Chris vagant legends of St George have in some legends as slaying a monster choked with fable, give us an
cavalry soldier, but he is described though H
twisted and garbled Cian martyr, which was written by been built, and it is ebay to see how with seaty body, rightful, teath, petur an early Christian commertín) institutions, pic-Christions for the information and the development took place. His cavernous jaws, fiery breath, terrible his faith in
who was persecuted and turesque scenery, local rates of instruction of the Christian Church, tomb would become an object of pil- claws, and forked wings and toll.
On this history were grafted a num- grimage, and, as the years passed by. The
Christ. His 17 per cent, of the rateable value ber of legends of gods, heroes, and those who visited it would fancy seems to be that this dragon was this account alone, and specially be
only reasonable explanation
memory deserves to be honoured, on of property, a salaries tax, a supernatural beings, and the original themselves cured of certain
unusual thing happened King Dadlanus, who tortured and de- cause his martyrdom symbolises the in operation) and a properties stroyed in the process. Hence it has at it or in the church would be re- of his life felt that this pagan king's against Wrong, Good against Evil
come to pass that for most people, as garded as miraculous. The credul-
wealthier classes, thriving in dustries, immensely successful
IDF.
and
tax; in the space of ten months, } Marcus mys, "St George is no more ous scribe who wrote his life would freatment of St George was so in the great war of a divided universe. Hongkong 847,200 in a special war effort with dragons."
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THE RT HON. LORD QUEENBOROUGH, G.B.E. President of the Royal Society of St George .....Britain is prepared, and far from shrinking from the "day or..
events at the tomb, and would in- corporate all the local plous gossip And if this recital of com-
and the imaginary stories of his parative facts does not make
powers. In this
the martyr way, The simple fucts, as separated from saint of Lydda
nation became a soon Hongkong heartily ashamed of the, accretions of legend and fable, al hero, possessing all the powers at itself, it is difficult to conceive are that George of Lydda, more com-
tributed to
gods and demi-gods,
and anything that will. In fact, the monly known as George of Cappa- in course of time was identified with comparison between the war docla, was the only son of wealthy Moses, Elljah, Michael the Archangel, | effort not only voluntary, but sheik at Lyddo in Palestine, who was Marduk and Tammuz of Babylonia, compulsory-of
a Chrisilan and a provincial ruler Horus and Ra of Egypt, and other the inland under the Romatis. After being solar gods and heroes. watering spa of Tunbridge trained-in-athletics, he joined the Wells and the Empire jewel of local army, in which he distinguished The truth is that he fought ne
himself by his boldness,
pre actual drogon, but as the great hero |Hongkong is so palpably to the kill in military exercises. On the necessary to invent one tor him. In night when armed men break the In'egrity at our shores, in avid of that
by his
of Christendom the scribes found it disadvantage of the latter, that death of his father he approached further comment is well nigh the Roman Governor with the flew this semi-divine character, as a hour. Germans may Innd; none will re-embark. They may come; they
soldier-saint superfluous.
cxcellence, par of obtaining his father's position, but "horseman of Christ," we can under may not return. For a German het there can be.no Dunkirk, the fact Of course, Tunbridge Wells, slowed with intense disfavour, and sistibly to Christians in every coun- bers, certainly of moral. On land, there has never been a doubt that, man- |
that he was a Christian was stand how he came to appeal irre-
"On sea and in the air we have now superiority, if not of actual num- like a dozen of similar towns in V England, has been blasted by pagan gods he was
on refusing to offer sacrifice to the try, and how his life-history, though for-man, the Briton, be he native to these islands or a defender sent from
tortured, and Nazi bombs, and that might eventually put to death. He was tatis, and incredible miracles, was
full of absurd events, fantastic de the younger Britain overseas, is suprior to the German. There will not nike a bit of difference to the Ludd, about afteen miles south tow publicly rend in the churches, under be here, as there was in France and the Law Countries that Scavler attitude of townsfolk con- south-east
that it was conducive to weight of metal on which 'à German victory would dependi corning the necessity of contri-
plety and edification. "This was the "But, it may well be that Herr Hitler and his entourage will think caso in England as far back as the buting their maximum to the than ever before in its history, seventh century, for His cult is re- yet again before putting, all to the deadly test of such an attempt. It war effort. But does Hongkong Britain and her Empire, of which ferred to by the Venerable Bede in may well be that the most fierce tide of this war will drive East and South have to wait to know what real Hongkong is a part.
his Martyrology (c. war is before it shakes itself out
The
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the
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example of the loyalty of came the Patron-Saint of Carlet East and that the grotesque humiliation of Signor Mussolint will compel of its self-satisfied, amug com-Tunbridge Wells is being duplicated dom, the Warrior of God, the Axis to pivot on that polo. placency to make a just con-England to-day. Let Hongkong fol- of the oppressed, the Protector of sure defeat for the Nazis, a defeat not inflicted without stern effort and In every city, town and village in fender of the wronged, the Dell verer "If that be so, then the growing superiority of Britain....must spell. tribution to the winning of the tow that example. Those who can widows and orphans, and the Ch
war? It is high time people vivo, must give, until it really means ton of the poor and needy. He was heavy loss to us, but a defeat certuin and final. here stopped bleating about the need something to them; theso who are even regarded as the Intercessor with "Those brave words imply, as all brave words must, that no vigil- for concessions in tax payments, the evading their duty and responsibill the Trinity, so that people every ance will be relaxed, no effort weakened. Of this we can be sure. Mr sigh cost of living, the strain of ties must be ruthlessly sought out where, on sea and land, besought Churchill's leadership grows in strength: not since the days of the younger keeping families in Australia, the and made to honour their obligations God's help in the name of St George. Fit has one man commanded so full a loyalty, What few, malcontents injustices of this, and Inequalities of Otherwise Mr Winston Churchill's When the story was spread of how existed outside...have been converted to unity by the errors and horrors the other. These would be, in peace fantous words This was their finest he miraculously helped the Crusaders of Nazism, on the ons hand, and the palpable righteousness of the callse time, reasonable plaints, but there is hour" can nover be applied to in the battle of Aniloch and in their which statesmen of the calibre, of Mr Churchill and President Roosevelt a war on to-day threatening more Hongkong.
nóro struggle with the Saracens, it is embody and sustain, on the other hand..