Each of the constituent countries of the British Isles has a patron saint. Scotland has an Apostle, St Andrew; Ireland has St Patrick who though a Roman Britain certainly evangelised in Ireland or at least the north part of it; Wales has in St David one of the very many insular saints of whom there are plenty in every part of our islands. England, however, has opted for an eastern warrior  saint, from the Byzantine world who, in all probability, never existed and  whose legend owes much to a pagan legendary hero of  uncertain credentials. [...]