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https://www.jesusneverexisted.com/george.html
The pork salesman who became a patron saint. This article backs me up and shows how Gelasius fraudulently created another George.
Gelasius ” also had cordial relations with the Ostrogoths, who were Arians (i.e. Non-trinitarian Christians), and therefore perceived as heretics from the perspective of Nicene Christians.[7]”
Gelasius canonised George in the late fifth century, barely a century after the bishop’s assassination, whereas George of Lydda had supposedly died a further century before that.
And when you say Catholic Church, the R.C. Church as we know it didn’t exist as its own entity until six centuries later. The bishop of Rome was no more than that, and no higher than any other bishop.
George of Cappadocia was, however, real.
And he could have been “sainted” when the Arians were in charge and then that just stuck; with Gibbon’s claim being refuted by them later re-inventing “St. George” as George of Lydda, a mythical person.(Not very William Morris-like are you, with his love of beautiful books and objects? A totally screen-based culture is very bleak to me, if that’s how you see our future. I think Morris would be on my side here.)
I make use of Gutenberg too, to email works to others, but i wouldn’t wish to read a work on it myself when i have books, which i can read at leisure and enjoy the physical object.
32 volumes! … Please, my home library passed that number before i was in long trousers!
Maybe they invented George of Lydda so as to save face over George of Cappadocia?đź‘Ť I think Gibbon is the best authority, still. (Unless you are saying, with the in-crowd, that we can chuck our books now ‘cos we have Wikipedia?) And let’s face it, Christians hate him.
I’m not under a parish priest because i’m not a Christian.
Just pointing out religious inconsistencies.
George of Cappadocia is known as an historical figure. After all, we are talking about the late 4th century, not a biblical legend.But i should have put this in Off Topic. Sorry.
No, but that was how things kicked off in Ukraine in 2014, wasn’t it? So maybe that’s the next flashpoint.
I was just reading about George and saw he was a follower of Arius. So by Church law he’s a heretic, so can’t be a saint. The same with Constantine. Yet they are venerated as saints. That’s like the Vatican canonising Billy Graham.
If we are to find the historical groups of the British Isles confusing, woe betide us when attempting to unravel the jigsaw that is ancient Greece and its innumerable city states and groups! Good grief!
Lowland Scots are not Scots. The Scots were the Gaels from Ireland who migrated to the Pictish Highlands and Isles in the 5th century, settled and mixed with the Picts, whom they absorbed.
In the 18th century Lowland and English redcoats would taunt Highland prisoners by yelling at them in broad “Scots'” dialect, which the Highlanders couldn’t understand a word of, being Gaelic speakers.
But of course, all such divisions are linguistic and cultural, since all humans are humans, cousins to chimpanzees. Nationalism is ridiculous.
