The Guv'nor looks at the patron saints of the British Isles and why Saint George is the best. ------------ Follow the Al on Twitter at / almurray Become a fan on Facebook at / thepublandlord
St Patrick drove the snakes out Ireland. St. David drove the vowels out of the Welsh language. St. Andrew drove the cuisine out of Scotland. And St. George drove humility out of the English.
"drove humility out of the English" Well, let's face it: we English never had much need for Humility, anyway. We have so little to be 'humble' about...............................unlike those poor folk in 'less happier lands' (to quote Our Bill).
“St George is your ultimate down to earth British bloke” Some smartass in the crowd - “no he wasn’t” Don’t think he quite realises the whole thing is a piss take
Well I don’t think that you are very good judge as to why he said that, it’s all in the game that you know! (Youngsters nowadays bloody hell do they want everything explained to them.
Funny thing is, he's incredibly bright. And very well educated. The whole "pub landlord" is a total act, and I wouldn't put it past him for it to not be real beer.
@@TheMijman I'd almost guarantee it isn't. Imagine doing a tour lasting months on end, drinking every night? Its what killed a lot of the comedians from the 60's and 70's
It’s a prop that doesn’t contain alcohol. He is questioned about it all the time. He just acts that way as his persona. He’s an extremely intelligent guy when not “ in character “
The story of St George is a classic case of how the truth can be understood in one era but completely misunderstood in another. IE The Dragon was Diocletian who had a dragon as his battle standard and was Emperor at the time. George"Slew" the dragon this does not imply killing in the original tales. What happened is St George was a Pretorian Guard and Diocletian had decreed anyone in Rome that believed in Christ was to be put to death. When Diocletian's wife saw how calmly St George went to his death she too became a Christian and due to politics etc at the time Diocletian had to have her put to death. He was never the same again and lasted less than a year as Emperor after that.
@@Wolf36181 It don’t work like that bro. Satan sure WANTS you to think he’s cool. Be very careful whose side you are on. God wants you in heaven, Satan wants you as his slave in hell.
WRONG. Andrew best of all saints he actually existed Scotland best nation in the Union followed by Northern Ireland then Taffyland and Pommieville last equal full of poofy Morris dancers ffs ;-)
I am Maltese and when he said 'St.George was from Malta' it was really funny. Of course St. George was not from Malta ,but the joke is that Malta for the British is known as the 'George Cross island' for having been awarded a George Cross medal for resisting the hundreds of air raids by the German and Italian airforces during World War Two. This is a well known fact in Britain and it often gets asked in many TV quizes. Now people not from Malta or the British Isles might not have got that joke but for me it was simply hilarious like the whole of this sketch.
"might not have got that joke" Indeed - rather like when Al informed his audience that we British 'invented' Gravity (cue puzzled reaction on RU-vid reactor's face) !!
@@marvinc9994 I had no doubt you knew , but I would not bet a cent all the English know this fact. However, joking apart you English gave a lot to this World and you should be very proud of your country.
@@sebastianvella8992 "you English gave a lot to this World " Yep - including the Computer and the World Wide Web. I expect we'll find a use for them some day ;-)
Saint George (Greek: Γεώργιος, Geṓrgios; Latin: Georgius; d. 23 April 303[4]) was a soldier of Cappadocian Greek origins, member of the Praetorian Guard for Roman emperor Diocletian, who was sentenced to death for refusing to recant his Christian faith. He became one of the most venerated saints and megalo-martyrs in Christianity, and he has been especially venerated as a military saint since the Crusades. In hagiography, as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers and one of the most prominent military saints, he is immortalised in the legend of Saint George and the Dragon. His memorial, Saint George's Day, is traditionally celebrated on 23 April. (See under "Feast days" below for the use of the Julian calendar by the Eastern Orthodox Church.) Greek version The most complete version of the fifth century Greek text survives in a translation into Syriac from about 600. From text fragments preserved in the British Library a translation into English was published in 1925. In the Greek tradition, George was born to Greek Christian parents, in Cappadocia. His father died for the faith when George was fourteen, and his mother returned with George to her homeland of Syria Palaestina. A few years later, George's mother died. George travelled to the capital Nicomedia and joined the Roman army.[14] George was persecuted by one Dadianus. In later versions of the Greek legend, this name is rationalized to Diocletian, and George's martyrdom is placed in the Diocletian persecution of AD 303. The setting in Nicomedia is also secondary, and inconsistent with the earliest cultus of the saint being located in Diospolis.[15] George was executed by decapitation before Nicomedia's city wall, on 23 April 303. A witness of his suffering convinced Empress Alexandra of Rome to become a Christian as well, so she joined George in martyrdom. His body was returned to Lydda for burial, where Christians soon came to honour him as a martyr. Latin version The Latin Acta Sancti Georgii (6th century) follows the general course of the Greek legend, but Diocletian here becomes Dacian, Emperor of the Persians. George lived and died in Melitene in Cappadocia. His martyrdom was greatly extended to more than twenty separate tortures over the course of seven years. Over the course of his martyrdom, 40,900 pagans were converted to Christianity, including the empress Alexandra. When George finally died, the wicked Dacian was carried away in a whirlwind of fire. In later Latin versions, the persecutor is the Roman emperor Decius, or a Roman judge named Dacian serving under Diocletian.
St George’s cross was the flag of Genoa, a powerful Italian city state with a strong fleet and I think English ships started using it to sail safely in the Mediterranean in the late medieval 🏰 period.
Absolutely correct and statuettes of St George still adorn walls in Genova. The Crusaders would travel to Genova and then take ship either on a Genovese vessel or would pay to be bale to fly the Genovese flag which meant they would not be attacked.
The George and the Dragon theme is widespread. Catalonia, parts of Portugal, Georgia, and others. In fact, the warrior or hero figure defeating or banishing the dragon or serpent figure is widespread the world over, from St Patrick in Ireland, Fáfnir (the mythical dragon) who was slain by Sigurd in Scandinavia, to Ninurta in Mesoptamia, and many more.
You dragon deniers are a really hilarious bunch of conspiracy theorists... you should be cancelled. I asked the fairies at the bottom of my garden (well, Algernon and Geoffrey, the 'couple' next door...) and they agreed that dragons exist. So there.
Fun fact the patron saint of all the American nations is the Virgin Mary and each nation has a variation of her name, in the USA is "Our lady of Immaculate Conception"
St. George is the best possible saint of England, because he refused to kill the dragon, until after the locals converted to Christianity. "Join my religion, or else." That is the best possible interpretation of the English.
That isnt true. He killed the dragon, refused the reward and told them to give it to the poor. The people were so stoked on St. George that many of them converted to christianity. The pagan priests lobbied to have him killed poisoning the king against him, by telling him that he will steal his throne, destroy the kingdom, etc. He was tortured to death and is now a martyr saint.
St George fantastic British Saint's name. Great bloke, he killed the dragon, no argument there, fair play to him. Dragons needing slaying, George is your man, end of.....However, there was this Education Secretary in the 70s, she took milk from babies. She later became Prime Monster, she displayed all the traits of a Dragon, she burned the Unions, burned the coal, steel and shipbuilding industries then sold everything that we owned as a Nation!! As a NATION.....to her wealthy friends. She even, even sold the Electricity Board, Our Great British Electricity Board.....to Fr....FRA....FRA.......fuckin' FRANCE, FFS!!! Where was Georgie Boy then? 'E was restin' on 'is fuckin' laurels, still thinkin' of his glory days. That fuckin' where!! I rest my case.
Seriously? St. David did nothing!? What about the miracle of the small hill that arose on the very ground he stood on one day when he was preaching. And no moles involved, or at least none reported.
The legend is that Saint George was a Catholic soldier in the Roman army and the story grew within the Byzantine tradition when the legend was adopted by crusaders and brought back to a newly conquered England.
Saint George was a Palestinian who was one of the top officers in the Roman Empire under the rule of Diocletian, and funnily enough, he did lay down his life for Jesus, when Diocletian banned religion, George refused to give up his Christian faith, and took the death penalty as a result.
His whole stick is a piss-take of the English working class. If there's one thing upper middle class English socialists hate, it's the English working class.
@@lawrencian St Patrick was taken from the west of Britain by Irish raiders in the 5th or 6th century a.d during the Anglo Saxon invasion. He was Romano British. Some historians think his home was Lancashire which was still British then. The Romano British are also known as the Welsh.
@@aroutledge9565 rubbish. Patrick was actually Scottish from Strathclyde. He had NO connection to Catholic church his theology more akin to Protestantism as was Jesus.
Al , don't forget the pint is a pound and a quarter in weight. 1 lb , 4 ounces....or 20 fluid ounces.... 8 pints, equals one gallon. Which is 10 pounds in weight...( lbs) which is sort for libre, ( Latin for pound )
You mean the Arab knight? That never, like Richard the lion heart, never set foot in England. And he killed a dragon? It makes about as much sense as much of our mythical history. And then we th3 three lions? I can’t rember the last time I saw a lion in England out side a zoo. Why do people believe, rant about, follow this type of rubbish.?
Brilliant. Your Oxbridge caricaturing and mockery of white working class people, their culture and values, contributed (in an admittedly fairly minor way) to my decision to vote Leave.
Don't be such a pussy he's just having a laugh. And we gave up our values along with the rest of the West over 100 years ago so don't act like everyone is still going to church.
@@kekistanihelpdesk8508 Oh, don't get me wrong, it's very funny. I've actually been to see The Pub Landlord twice. I can admire Al Murray, in the same way as I can admire Stalin.
Im doing this for no reason ok just don’t question me Saint David (Welsh: Dewi Sant; Latin: Davidus; c. 500 - c. 589) was a Welsh bishop of Mynyw (now St Davids) during the 6th century. He is the patron saint of Wales. David was a native of Wales, and a relatively large amount of information is known about his life. His birth date, however, is uncertain: suggestions range from 462 to 512.[1] He is traditionally believed to be the son of Saint Non and the grandson of Ceredig ap Cunedda, king of Ceredigion.[2] The Welsh annals placed his death 569 years after the birth of Christ,[3] but Phillimore's dating revised this to 601.[4] His best-known miracle is said to have taken place when he was preaching in the middle of a large crowd at the Synod of Brefi: the village of Llanddewi Brefi stands on the spot where the ground on which he stood is reputed to have risen up to form a small hill. A white dove, which became his emblem, was seen settling on his shoulder. John Davies notes that one can scarcely "conceive of any miracle more superfluous" in that part of Wales than the creation of a new hill.[6] David is said to have denounced Pelagianism during this incident and he was declared archbishop by popular acclaim according to Rhygyfarch,[7] bringing about the retirement of Dubricius. St David's metropolitan status as an archbishopric was later supported by Bernard, Bishop of St David's, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Gerald of Wales. The Monastic Rule of David prescribed that monks had to pull the plough themselves without draught animals,[5] and must drink only water and eat only bread with salt and herbs.[8] The monks spent their evenings in prayer, reading and writing. No personal possessions were allowed: even to say "my book" was considered an offence. He lived a simple life and practised asceticism, teaching his followers to refrain from eating meat and drinking beer. His symbol, also the symbol of Wales, is the leek (this inspires a reference in Shakespeare's Henry V, Act V scene 1) : Fluellen: "If your Majesty is remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps, which your Majesty knows, to this hour is an honourable badge of the service, and I do believe, your Majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Tavy's day". King Henry: "I wear it for a memorable honour; for I am Welsh, you know, good countryman". Connections to Glastonbury Rhigyfarch counted Glastonbury Abbey among the churches David founded.[9] Around forty years later William of Malmesbury, believing the Abbey older, said that David visited Glastonbury only to rededicate the Abbey and to donate a travelling altar including a great sapphire. He had had a vision of Jesus who said that "the church had been dedicated long ago by Himself in honour of His Mother, and it was not seemly that it should be re-dedicated by human hands". So David instead commissioned an extension to be built to the abbey, east of the Old Church. (The dimensions of this extension given by William were verified archaeologically in 1921). One manuscript indicates that a sapphire altar was among the items Henry VIII of England confiscated from the abbey during the Dissolution of the Monasteries a thousand years later. Though the exact date of his death is not certain, tradition holds that it was on 1 March, which is the date now marked as Saint David's Day.[10] The two most common years given for his death are 601 and 589. The monastery is said to have been "filled with angels as Christ received his soul". His last words to his followers were in a sermon on the previous Sunday. The Welsh Life of St David gives these as, "Arglwydi, vrodyr, a chwioryd, Bydwch lawen a chedwch ych ffyd a'ch cret, a gwnewch y petheu bychein a glywyssawch ac a welsawch gennyf i. A mynheu a gerdaf y fford yd aeth an tadeu idi",[11] which translates as, "Lords, brothers and sisters, Be joyful, and keep your faith and your creed, and do the little things that you have seen me do and heard about. And as for me, I will walk the path that our fathers have trod before us." "Do ye the little things in life" ("Gwnewch y pethau bychain mewn bywyd") is today a very well known phrase in Welsh. The same passage states that he died on a Tuesday, from which attempts have been made to calculate the year of his death. David was buried at St David's Cathedral at St Davids, Pembrokeshire, where his shrine was a popular place of pilgrimage throughout the Middle Ages. During the 10th and 11th centuries the Cathedral was regularly raided by Vikings, who removed the shrine from the church and stripped off the precious metal adornments. In 1275 a new shrine was constructed, the ruined base of which remains to this day (see photo), which was originally surmounted by an ornamental wooden canopy with murals of David, Patrick and Denis. The relics of David and Justinian of Ramsey Island were kept in a portable casket on the stone base of the shrine. It was at this shrine that Edward I came to pray in 1284. During the reformation Bishop Barlow (1536-48), a staunch Protestant, stripped the shrine of its jewels and confiscated the relics of David and Justinian. David's popularity in Wales is shown by the Armes Prydein of around 930, a popular poem which prophesied that in the future, when all might seem lost, the Cymry (Welsh people) would unite behind the standard of David to defeat the English; "A lluman glân Dewi a ddyrchafant" ("And they will raise the pure banner of Dewi"). David is said to have played a role in spreading Christianity on the continent, inspiring numerous place names in Brittany including Saint-Divy, Saint-Yvi and Landivy. David's life and teachings have inspired a choral work by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins, Dewi Sant. It is a seven-movement work best known for the classical crossover series Adiemus, which intersperses movements reflecting the themes of David's last sermon with those drawing from three Psalms. An oratorio by another Welsh composer Arwel Hughes, also entitled Dewi Sant, was composed in 1950. Saint David is also thought to be associated with corpse candles, lights that would warn of the imminent death of a member of the community. The story goes that David prayed for his people to have some warning of their death, so that they could prepare themselves. In a vision, David's wish was granted and told that from then on, people who lived in the land of Dewi Sant (Saint David) "would be forewarned by the dim light of mysterious tapers when and where the death might be expected". The colour and size of the tapers indicated whether the person to die would be a woman, man, or child.[14] David was officially recognised at the Holy See by Pope Callixtus II in 1120, thanks to the work of Bernard, Bishop of St David's. Music for his Liturgy of the Hours has been edited by O. T. Edwards in Matins, Lauds and Vespers for St David's Day: the Medieval Office of the Welsh Patron Saint in National Library of Wales MS 20541 E (Cambridge, 1990). David was also canonized by the Eastern Orthodox Church at an unknown date. Over 50 churches in South Wales were dedicated to him in pre-Reformation days.[5] In the 2004 edition of the Roman Martyrology, David is listed under 1 March with the Latin name Dávus. He is recognised as bishop of Menevia in Wales who governed his monastery following the example of the Eastern Fathers. Through his leadership, many monks went forth to evangelise Wales, Ireland, Cornwall and Armorica (Brittany and surrounding provinces).[12] The restored Shrine of Saint David was unveiled and rededicated by the Right Reverend Wyn Evans, Bishop of St David's, at a Choral Eucharist on Saint David's Day, 2012. A broadside ballad published around 1630 claimed that the Welsh wore a leek in their hats to commemorate a battle fought on St David's Day. So as to recognise friend from foe, the Welsh had pulled up leeks from a garden and put them in their hats, before going on to win the battle.[13] I just copied and pasted because I can’t remember it all
The British Royal Family are descendants of the Dragon. Lizard People! (But ssshhh. Lizard people can't read inside brackets. We can defeat them. We can still rise now! And be the nation again, that stood against the dragon ....)
The dragon referred to in the St George story is the dragon of the Pagans. The snakes reffered to in St Patrick's story are the snakes of the Celts. There never has been snakes in Ireland so he couldn't have got rid of something that was not there. But, Celts there were a plenty. Same as the Nordic Pagans that used the dragon as a symbol.
He was from modern day Turkey and he did give his life in the name of Jesus Christ. George became a well liked and powerful within the Roman army ranks (picture Russel Crow in the Gladiator) He was a practising Christian while Rome was still pagan, the Roman emperor Diocletian, pleaded with George not to practice Christianity in public, offered him money and wealth. George refused and he was subject to horrific torture and beheading in 303 AD. The story of St George become popular with the knights of the first crusades in the 11th century and became patron St of England 1350 and further advance by Henry 5th in the battle of Agincourt in 1415 when we kicked the living snot of of the French! With great help from our brothers the Welsh longbow men which we would not have won without them.
Actually, I rather like St George - and I think we English did well to adopt him. And he's SO much sexier and credible than, say, St Crispin (cobblers), St Lidwina (ice-skaters) or St James of Savile (kiddy-fiddlers).
Stop knickin our saints!! He renounced his welsh citizenship and went for the full irish because of our tax breaks for musical artists. Exactly like bono.
WRONG. Patrick was from Strathclyde here in Scotland. How do I know? Ministry Degree including Church history lecturer from Ireland Professor Ian Hazelett University of Glasgow.
Isn’t st George also patron saint of about 6 different countries? I suppose that and the fact that he never actually visited Engerland makes him irrelevant 🤔
Real Irish ancestry or made up Irish ancestry? John Kerry spent decades claiming he was Irish-American until someone actually checked and discovered he had precisely zero Irish antecedents. His Eastern European forbears simply chose "Kerry" at Ellis Island on arrival.
Although the legend of St George as it has come down to us is obviously based on the classical myth of Perseus and Andromeda, I have often wondered if there might not have been some actual event involving a Nile crocodile.
