Our boy St. George is the patron Saint of both Palestine and Beirut! Given the fact that his martyrdom took place at Lydda, Palestine, testified to by two early Syrian church inscriptions and by a canon of Pope Gelasius I, dated 494, in which St. George is mentioned as one whose name was held in reverence, he is also a Muslim saint and the Patron Saint of Palestine; there is not one town in costal Palestine that doesn’t have either a church dedicated to St. George, or a mosque dedicated to Al-Khadr, the latter being his Muslim name.
So here is a shout out to our man (even to us atheists)!!

The grave of St. George in Lod, Israel

The one in my mothers house (can we say needlepoint!?)

Special shout outs to all my “born-again” Christian bloggers who will contend that St. George was really a suicide bomber or some other bigoted response.