Excerpt from The Four Champions of Great Britain and Ireland
The twenty-third of April is a date which every English school-boy should celebrate by some especially brave, kind or self-sacrificing deed.
It is St. George"s Day, and he, of course, is the patron saint of England. A saint who for hundreds of years past, sailors and soldiers have looked to for help in times of danger, and England is by no means the only land where his name is held in high esteem. St. George was not an Englishman by birth, for he was born sixteen hundred years ago, at Lydda in Palestine, of noble Christian parents of Greek origin, and his name has been honoured all over Europe.
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