The Feast of Saint George

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard favoured rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect.
On, on you noblest English!
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof;
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought,
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument.
And you, good yeomen,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here the mettle of your pasture.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit; and upon this charge
Cry "God for Harry! England and Saint George".

Will Shakespeare. Henry V. Henry urges his men into the attack at the Siege of Harfleur, August 18th to September 22nd, 1415.

Today is, of course the feast day of St George, patron saint of England, and of Aragon, Catalonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Palestine, Portugal, and Russia, as well as the cities of Amersfoort, Beirut, Ferrara, Freiburg, Genoa, Ljubljana, and Moscow, as well as of farmers and shepherds and a wide range of professions, organisations and disease sufferers.

I had it in mind to blip an icon of St George killing his dragon, but now see that I blipped them last year. So, instead, I offer a gathering of other Saints, but sadly I have no idea who they are. Doubtless that they will be patrons of some country, city or profession or other.