{"id":1374,"date":"2015-04-23T08:29:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T08:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2015-04-23T08:29:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T08:29:32","slug":"st-georges-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1374","title":{"rendered":"St George&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\">April 23<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0patron saint of England\u00a0is Saint George. Saint George&#8217;s Day is celebrated on April 23, the <span class=\"st\">anniversary of his death. It is not a public holiday in England, although there are <a title=\"st georges day.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stgeorgesday.com\/st-georges-day\/history-of-the-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">groups<\/a> that feel it ought to be.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Taken from <a title=\"st-georges-day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stgeorgesday.com\/st-georges-day\/history-of-the-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St Georges Day.com website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The History of St George\u2019s Day<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 1222 the Council of Oxford declared April 23rd to be St George\u2019s Day<\/li>\n<li>It was not until 1348 that St George became the Patron Saint of England<\/li>\n<li>In 1415, St George\u2019s Day was declared a national feast day and holiday in England<\/li>\n<li>However, after the union with Scotland at the end of the 18th Century, the tradition diminished and since has not been widely acknowledged and is no longer a national holiday<\/li>\n<li>Traditional customs were to fly the St George\u2019s flag and wear a red rose in one\u2019s lapel<\/li>\n<li>The hymn \u2018Jerusalem\u2019 was also sung on the 23rd April, or the nearest Sunday to that date, in churches across the nation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 23 April 1616 was also the date of the death of the English playwright William Shakespeare. UNESCO marked this historic date by declaring it the International Day of the Book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stgeorgesday.com\/st-georges-day\/history-of-the-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.stgeorgesday.com\/st-georges-day\/history-of-the-day\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"St George and the Dragon!\" width=\"748\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8QgA51HyW4Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 23 &nbsp; The\u00a0patron saint of England\u00a0is Saint George. Saint George&#8217;s Day is celebrated on April 23, the anniversary of his death. It is not a public holiday in England, although there are groups that feel it ought to be.\u00a0 Taken from St Georges Day.com website &#8220;The History of St George\u2019s Day In 1222 the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1374\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St George&#8217;s Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[521,541,514],"tags":[838],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calendar-events-misc","category-history","category-people","tag-st-george"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>St George&#039;s Day - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1374\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"St George&#039;s Day - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"April 23 &nbsp; The\u00a0patron saint of England\u00a0is Saint George. 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