St. George and Mary

I include here some current events, including news outside the U.S.

I nonetheless begin with the rose. Beyond Valentine’s Day, the rose is often associated with English gardens. England’s history also includes the War of the Roses.

Few people however associate roses with a Christian saint named St. George.

In one legend about George, he slayed a terrible beast that threatened a Princess. Out of the beast’s spilled blood, formed red roses. George gave them to the Princess. George and the Princess were then married.

George is also the patron saint of Russia, for which I turn to an event by President Putin of Russia, a joint military exercise with Belarus. St. George, we recall, is a Christian saint of war. The exercise took place on dates 9/12 - 9/16.

The date in the U.S. at the time was still 9/15.

For this, I recall a long-ago Catholic bishop of Rome, the same who converted the pagan Angles people into the Christian English. The bishop determined that in order to achieve this, he must malign someone along the way.

Thus did Bishop Gregory falsely deem Mary Magdalene of the Bible, to be a sinner (prostitute). The slander was made official in year 591 AD.

We note therefore, the closeness of numbers/dates, between 9/15 and 591 AD. More so, the closeness of the date 9/15 with the date 9/14.

9/14, when is the annual Catholic holiday the Feast of the True Cross. The feast day celebrates when was purportedly discovered the True Cross (the crucifixion cross) by Helen, mother of Constantine the Great. The purported discovery which enabled her son to have the title, Constantine the Great.

Constantine sought to carve himself a different kind of empire, than the one of his predecessor, Diocletian who had persecuted Christians, including George. Hence Helen’s “discovery” of the True Cross, to indicate the importance of Christianity.

Constantine for having doing so, arguably the most influential leader of Western history.

However was Constantine ultimately, a product of the times - the times defined by George.

Constantine who seized the moment, but the moment which is the result of George.

George, who may not have killed a mythical beast, however, defended a fundamental principle to all humankind. The one of Male and Female. Not necessarily who defends whom, in hierarchical manner. But in the moment when a terrible beast arrived, George who raised a sword.

However is the female, of equal hierarchical power to defend, if able to do so, in different form. For example, to defend the fact that Russia is the iconic nation of St. George, and all other nations, pretenders to that throne.

Why Russia, the very complex story woven through all the pages of this site, but you can begin with “The Rose and George”. The story, which is a real one, culminates in TWO SEATS, currently being published in parts: https://www.stohl.org/two-seats

Thus we note another nation that claims St. George, which is England. Not coincidentally, this is the nation that has exerted the most influence on Western history, that is, in how that story is told — i.e., via the English language, the language of not only England but the United States.

Rosehouse, this website, brings not only this point to light — but through roses, the flower associated with England, including through its War of the Roses, the civil war of England in the post-middle ages.

Yet the real War of the Roses, is the one over the throne of George. Who truly embodies George today, in the fact of his person, and mission? What he died for too.

The person is certainly not any male in the English-speaking world, for mere fact that the English language was used to cut off the world’s understanding, especially America’s, about the other side of the globe.

There, where is the nation that quietly carried the true sword of George, for centuries. The nation not coincidentally attacked, vilified, surrounded, thrown into the shadows since the Great Schism, 1054 AD.

The nation toppled, its royals executed, re-made and sent through the crucible of Communism, and still carried the sword. The sword by now a little beat up, a little tarnished, but underneath it all, gleaming still.

Only one person who carries it, the only one wields it with the dignity, weight and gravitas it must be held — the President of Russia Vladimir Putin.

The sword that is not a frivolous one, but the one upon a new picture forms. The one not just of Russia, but the world. The one not just of himself, but the picture that doesn’t fail to be absolutely about Male, Female.

George, if alive today, would solemnly, joyfully, pass that mantle to him.

And on the other side of the world from Russia, a red rose to be soon planted to signify the same.

Stay tuned for that rose, of which I will post a photo soon, with description.