If you walk north from Newmans Green to Cuckoo Tye, on land which lies relatively high for Suffolk, you reach several points at which you can see three church towers: those of Acton, Lavenham and also Long Melford.On this St George's Day, when I took my daily constitutional with Rendle the Lurcher this morning, all three towers were flying the cross of St George.
In addition to being our patron saint, St George is also the patron saint of Moscow. He is just one of many saintly princes that are revered by the Russian Orthodox faith. The early fifteenth century icon here, which is now in the Russian Museum in St Petersburg, is from Novgorod.
Happy St George's Day, and of course a very happy birthday to William Shakespeare too!
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