SPAIN/UK Today is Saint George's Day, celebrating the fictitious patron saint of England. It is also Saint Jordi (that's George in Catalan), when tradition demands that a man receives a book and the woman, a rose. There is a connection but the whole thing starts in the year 303 in Capadocia, a somewhat elusive place (depends on who's telling the story) located in Turkey, where a dragon kept attacking the inhabitants of the kingdom there. An enormously frightened populace sacrificed two lambs to the dragon every day in the hope of stemming its hunger and it would stop its attacks. But lambs soon became scarce, and one of the lambs was replaced by the sacrifice of a person.>>>
