St George’s Day, 23 April is always met here in once merry England by the claim that oh, he was Turkish and a migrant worker. It is the same thing now being done to the Vikings, which no doubt we will also address. And, it is not just the Left doing this, but some so-called “Right” sites which have more in common with the Left than the Right. But, as detailed in a great article by Breitbart.com, the multicultural claims are all false. Yes, George was not English, but a Greek, but he has a backstory that the multicultural Left shy from: “The fact St George was not English was no secret to the medieval English who adopted him as national patron — or to the Russians, Georgians, Genoese, and others who have also adopted him — with the military saint instead being chosen because he reputedly appeared to Crusaders attempting to win back the Holy Land from its Muslim conquerors in the 11th century.
This is generally not mentioned by leftists keen to recast him as a multicultural icon in the present day.”