I know what you did George Somers
Art Neuendorffer
Shakespeare & Cervantes both die on St. George's day, 1616
leaving no letters, books or manuscripts
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Admiral Sir George Somers dies in Bermuda on April 24, 1610
a day after the anniversary of his patron saint.
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Historic Town of St. George in Bermuda
http://www.bermuda-online.org/seetown.htm
Five oldest Northern European municipality in the Western Hemisphere:
1) St. John's in Newfoundland founded by the British;
2) Annapolis Royal (formerly Port Royal) founded by the French in Nova
Scotia, in 1605;
3) Jamestown, Virginia, founded by the British in 1607
4) Quebec City founded by the French in 1608 and
5) St. George in Bermuda 1612.
<<It began three years after Bermuda was founded in 1609 - by accident
- as a British colony in 1609. Nine ships under the personal command of
Admiral Sir George Somers - born and bred in Lyme Regis, England and a
Royal Navy hero - sailed from Plymouth in Devon, England. They were
bound for Jamestown in Virginia under the first 17th century Virginia
Charter of April 10, 1606 - not the Second Virginia Charter of May 23,
1609. But the flagship "Sea Venture" was blown off course and wrecked
near here in Bermuda.
Another vessel - the "Catch" - perished in the same tempest. Stranded
here for 42 weeks, the colonists left Bermuda in 1610 in two small ships
and with many local provisions. They arrived in Jamestown in time to
rescue it from starvation. The town was the first municipality in
Bermuda, established before St. George's Parish (in which the town is
located). It was referred to initially as New London. It was first
populated by British settlers. They arrived in 1609 by accident instead
of going to Jamestown in Virginia.
The writings in 1609 and 1610 of William Strachey from Lyme Regis have
been recorded in local, American and British history. It was as a direct
result of how the Bermuda colonists rescued Jamestown in 1610 that
Bermuda was included by name with Virginia in the Third Virginia Charter
of March 12, 1612 and settled deliberately. Stachey wrote the main
accounts and was described in the original ship's manifest as Secretary
Elect to the Deputy Governor of Virginia. Later, Strachey became famous
as the author of the first code of laws for Virginia.
The colonists who arrived in Jamestown included widower John Rolfe
(later the husband of Princess Pocahontas) whose first wife and infant
child died in Bermuda. The women among them were the first ever to be
allowed in as voluntary female colonists. Goods carried by them included
large sea shells like conch, coral for ballast, the original signet ring
of Strachey with his family crest and more. They are all now preserved
by a Jamestown museum. Thus this earlier Bermuda town has great
importance in early British North America as the catalyst of British
colonial development in North America. Admiral Sir George Somers wrote
his last will and testament at his home in Lyme Regis on April 23, 1609.
It was just before he set out for Plymouth in expectation he would reach
Virginia but instead was shipwrecked on what is now St. George's Island,
Bermuda.
In 1609, Admiral Sir George Somers, who founded Bermuda, named the town
not after the Patron Saint of England, St. George. The admiral's ships
all flew the flag of St. George, as ships of the Royal Navy still do
today. The Admiral died in Bermuda on April 24, 1610 - a day after the
anniversary of his patron saint. But in this British colonial town named
after the saint, the Flag of St. George is never flown, not even on
April 23, the official feast day in England of St. George, who died in
304. Although this saint is no longer in the official calendar of the
Catholic Church, he remains a popular figure, particularly with the
English. No particulars of his life have survived but veneration of
Saint George as a soldier saint is extensive, especially in the east
where he was martyred. By the sixth century he was referred to as the
saint whose deeds are known only to God. How he fought and killed a huge
dragon was popularized in the late middle ages by Jacob da Voragine in
Saints' Lives, known as the Golden Legend. From this, we know George was
a Christian knight from Cappadoccia. It was at Silene - now Libya -
that he rescued a maiden from a dragon. Thousands of people were
converted to Christianity. George was persecuted by savage Roman emperor
Diocletian. He was beheaded in Nicosia, Cyprus, for defending his faith.
It is not known how and why he became the patron saint of England. But
his cult was popularized by crusaders returning from the east, initially
led by King Richard of England. This is why St. George is most often
shown wearing a white tabard with the red cross of the crusaders and is
the patron saint not only of England but also Boy Scouts (as St. George
was a hero of Lord Baden - Powell), various places in Spain and
elsewhere. San Giorgio a Velabro is the only church still in the
capital city of Rome in Italy dedicated to the Saint. There are no
cities or towns in England dedicated to the saint. But there are honors,
schools, chapels and churches galore there, plus other places overseas
called St. George, like Georgetown in the Cayman Islands, another
Georgetown of Guyana in South America and St. George's of Grenada
in the Caribbean. None but they are as old as our town.>>
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Art Neuendorffer
lyra
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Shakespeare & Cervantes both die on St. George's day, 1616
> leaving no letters, books or manuscripts
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Admiral Sir George Somers dies in Bermuda on April 24, 1610
> a day after the anniversary of his patron saint.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Historic Town of St. George in Bermuda
> http://www.bermuda-online.org/seetown.htm
>
> been recorded in local, American and British history. It was as a direct
> result of how the Bermuda colonists rescued Jamestown in 1610 that
> Bermuda was included by name with Virginia in the Third Virginia Charter
> of March 12, 1612 and settled deliberately. Stachey wrote the main
> accounts and was described in the original ship's manifest as Secretary
> Elect to the Deputy Governor of Virginia. Later, Strachey became famous
> as the author of the first code of laws for Virginia.
another Strachey was associated with another Virginia!
(Woolf...
played by Nicole Kidman in The Hours...)
"Why do you come to the Academy Awards when the world is in such
turmoil," Kidman said. "Because art is important. And because you
believe in what you do and you want to honour that, and it is a
tradition that needs to be upheld."
> April 23, the official feast day in England of St. George, who died in
> 304. Although this saint is no longer in the official calendar of the
> Catholic Church, he remains a popular figure, particularly with the
> English. No particulars of his life have survived but veneration of
> Saint George as a soldier saint is extensive, especially in the east
> where he was martyred. By the sixth century he was referred to as the
> saint whose deeds are known only to God. How he fought and killed a huge
> dragon was popularized in the late middle ages by Jacob da Voragine in
> Saints' Lives, known as the Golden Legend. From this, we know George was
> a Christian knight from Cappadoccia. It was at Silene - now Libya -
> that he rescued a maiden from a dragon. Thousands of people were
> converted to Christianity. George was persecuted by savage Roman emperor
> Diocletian. He was beheaded in Nicosia, Cyprus, for defending his faith.
> It is not known how and why he became the patron saint of England. But
> his cult was popularized by crusaders returning from the east, initially
> led by King Richard of England. This is why St. George is most often
> shown wearing a white tabard with the red cross of the crusaders and is
> the patron saint not only of England but also Boy Scouts (as St. George
> was a hero of Lord Baden - Powell), various places in Spain and
> elsewhere.
(quote)
"I always win. The dragon never seems to learn," joked Roger, who has
vanquished his medieval foe several times in the past.
"St George has strong historical links with Coventry. The red cross on
a white background is the symbol of the Knights Templar, who owned a
lot of land in Coventry," said Roger.
"In fact until two or three centuries ago it was accepted that St
George was born in Coventry and died here."
http://www.cwn.org.uk/business/a-z/c/city-centre-company-coventry/2001/04/010418-st-george.htm
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"The elongated Iron Crosses, the sort of thing that in the Templar
case gave rise to the St George's Cross of England, were used by both
the Templars and the Hospitallers as their banners and arms."
http://flagspot.net/flags/crusade.html
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"The article also says that the Templar's cross was adopted in 1119
and was derived from the cross of the Copta Church."
http://atlasgeo.span.ch/fotw/flags/rord.html
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"Grand Larousse Illustré du XXe Siècle (1932) has an entry for
Beaucéant (or Beauçant), which clearly refers to the same flag:
Beaucéant (ou Beauçant).
n.m. (du provençal, bausan, balzan). Etendard des anciens Templiers,
mi-parti noir et blanc.
n.m. (from provençal, bausan, with white stockings [horse]). Standard
of the ancient knights of Temple, divided black and white.
Two points deserve discussion:
- The description refers to a flag divided black and white, but does
not give the arrangement of the parts.
- The etymology differs from the most often cited reference to 'beau
séant', 'looking nice'.
The word 'balzane' (from Italian, balza, border) is still used in
French for a spot of white hairs on the lower part of the legs of a
dark-coated horse. The adjective 'balzan' is used to describe such a
horse. From the etymology, it seems evident that the flag was
horizontally divided black over white, exactly like the leg of a horse
with white stockings. However, the etymological reports given in
Larousse, especially in the ancient editions, have to be considered
with extreme caution. Robert would be a much more authoritative
source, but has unfortunately no entry for 'bauceant'."
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"The beauseant or VAU CENT (= value hundred) is the long and thin
standard with small penon of the Templars, not just as a sign of war,
but of the almighty presence of Jesus Christ himself in his glory as a
risen God on Easter Sunday morning. Its penon is a symbol of the holy
and famous cornerstone of the temple
of Jerusalem. The whole area of the temple can be domed over by two
imaginary domes 2 : 3 totally measuring 480 cubits - the famous Cloud
of Jahweh. They form together a Pythagorean triangle with sides of
120, 160 and 200 cubits - the height = 96 cubits. This is the reason
why the vaucent is divided in 2 : 3. On the top of the great
Pythagorean triangle can be placed a cornerstone of equal size i.e. 3
: 4 : 5 cubits. You can "move" the vaucent 3 cubits to the front and 2
cubits backwards. If the vaucent is "in function" and is put 3 cubits
to the front it raises at the same time its height to 100 cubits (100
- 96 = 4 cubits). In that way you will get the same remarkable
proportions on the axes: 75 : 100 : 125 cubits. Just try it out and
just make a sketch.
I searched the temple plan of Jerusalem for 12 years now according to
the original sources (old Hebrew and old Greek) and I know now for
certain, because it's all mathematic."
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"The flag or banner that you display, if turned 180 degrees, is the
current banner of the Grand Priory of England and Wales, OSMRH
(Knights Templar). It is a beauseant (top half black, bottom half
white) surmounted by a Cross of St. George."
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"It's a theory that the Templars were in North America, pre-Columbian,
laying claim to mineral wealth. It's also alleged that some of the
16th-century Europeans in the New World had allegiance to
Templar-related groups, not the Spanish Crown, and were exploiting the
same mineral deposits for themselves.
In your quests, look for the sign of Venus, either as the well-known
alchemical symbol or as the outlined cross. It's the sign od
Quetzalcoatl and, by association, the New World sign of the Templar
groups."
http://pub69.ezboard.com/fancientlosttreasuresfrm49.showMessage?topicID=1.topic
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