GEORGE

St., the patron saint of England, was canonized about 495 A.D. His history is very uncertain, but Gibbon’s suggestion that he was the turbulent Arian heretic who was killed in a riot in 361 A.D. is highly improbable. He was adopted as the patron saint of the Genoese before the Council of Oxford in 1222 ordered his day, April 23, to be kept as a national holiday. Shakespeare, the great national hero, came to the; throne on the same day. Compendium of General Knowledge