Bob of Speakers' Corner

So they stuck...

iron sandals on him with nails in them to burn his feet.

They regularly whipped him and beat him.

They chucked him into a pit of lime.

They locked him up in a dungeon, a cell, little food, little water.

And after all of these various tortures were inflicted upon him, and he still had not renounced the faith, he continued to say Christos is Kaiser, which is Christ is Lord, rather than, you know, saying that the emperor, Diocletian, was Lord.

He was eventually beheaded near his home city of Lydda.

And from that time on,

His fame and his veneration went out across the Christian church.

He became a popular saint in Georgia.

which is named after him.

He became a popular saint in Egypt.

He became a popular saint in Ethiopia, where he's actually the patron saint.

So he's the patron saint of England.

He's the patron saint of Ethiopia.

He's the patron saint of Georgia.

And he's the patron saint of Portugal, where the battle cry was always Portugal and St.

George.

You know, echoing, you know, Shakespeare's Henry V play where it says, you know, and upon this charge, cry out God for Henry, for England and St.

George.