For those of you who thought that St. George’s day was only celebrated in England, think again, and watch out for Dragons!
The Fun Facts: St George’s Day is celebrated by the several nations, kingdoms, countries, and cities of which Saint George is the patron saint, including England, Germany, the old kingdoms and counties of the Crown of Aragon in Spain — Aragon, Catalonia and Valencia; Portugal, Cyprus, Greece, Georgia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Macedonia, and the cities of Moscow in Russia, Genova in Italy, Ljubljana in Slovenia, Beirut in Lebanon, Qormi and Victoria in Malta and many others.
St George’s Day is celebrated in Albania and Kosovo as well, is a day of joy and believing in God, people will go out and build a fire and play around it, people will bless their houses, fields, their children and everything around them with water as it was the holy water.
St George’s Day in Albania and Kosovo is celebrated on the 6th of May and is called Shen Gjergji or Shengjergji and is a day where people celebrate the blessing of God. They go to church and pray to God and St George and sing songs about St George.
St. George’s Day is known as the Feast of St. George by Palestinians and is celebrated in the Monastery of St. George in al-Khader, near Bethlehem. It is also known as Georgemas. For England, St. George’s Day also marks its National Day. Most countries which observe St. George’s Day celebrate it on April 23, the traditionally accepted date of Saint George’s death in 303 A.D.
St. George’s Day is a provincial government holiday in Newfoundland, Canada..
